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单词 primary time
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primary (or least) time
23. Prosody. †A syllable, regarded as a metrical unit or unit of duration (obsolete); (spec. in Classical Prosody) a metrical unit equal to the duration of a short syllable; = mora n.1 3a (sometimes more fully primary (or least) time). Also used (usually with preceding modifying word) of longer metrical units or groups of units. Now rare.
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OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) ii. i. 92 Þæt rihtmeteruers sceal habban feower and twentig timan.
OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) ii. i. 92 Dactilus stent on anum langum timan and twam sceortum, and spondeus stent on feowrum [read twam] langum.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xii. 91 A new inuention of feete and times.
1737 E. Manwaring Stichol. iii. 11 These Feet, particularly such as are of six Times, will be often found to be in separate Words.
1774 W. Mitford Ess. Harmony Lang. viii. 134 The English pentameter..is not confined to a precise number of times, but has generally from fifteen to eighteen.
1797 Monthly Mag. 3 258 (note) Whatever exceeded two times (a short syllable being estimated as half a time) was termed not a foot but a number.
1822 E. Everett tr. P. Buttmann Greek Gram. 273 In measuring feet and verses, the short syllable is assumed as the unit, and the long syllable is regarded as double the short. Every such unit is called a time or mora.
1844 G. J. Pennington Ess. Pronunc. Greek Lang. 229 It was the number of times which went to a space which determined the rhythm. Thus the iambic rhythm has three times (˘¯).
1891 Cent. Dict. 6341/2 A time composed of two, three, etc., primary times..is called a disemic, trisemic, etc., time. Such times collectively are compound times.
1912 J. W. White Verse Greek Comedy i. 4 The thesis of a simple foot never contains fewer primary times than the arsis.
1947 R. C. Taliaferro tr. St. Augustine On Music ii. vi, in Writings II. 218 This foot is divided..either into one long and three shorts or into a long and short and two shorts, that is, either into two times and three times or into three and two.
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