单词 | tetrastich |
释义 | tetrastichn. Prosody. A stanza of four lines. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > quatrain tetrastich1580 quatrain1584 quaternion1722 tetrachord1817 1580 E. Spenser Let. to G. Harvey in Wks. (Globe) App. ii. 709/1 Here I let you see my olde use of toying in Rymes turned into your artificial straightnesse of Verse by this Tetrasticon. 1625 J. Ussher Answer to Jesuite 325 Therefore doth Theodorus Prodromus begin his Tetrastich upon our Saviours Resurrection. 1702 L'Estrange's Visions of Quevedo Burlesqu'd 62 What Man though always in the Pouts The following Tetrastick doubts? 1779 S. Johnson Milton in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets II. 20 Selvaggi praised him in a distich, and Salsilli in a tetrastick; neither of them of much value. 1824 J. Johnson Typographia I. 330 The last page, on which are an Epistle and Tetrastichon in Roman. 1865 R. Palmer Bk. Praise 489 The two tetrastichs composing the first stanza are transposed. Derivatives teˈtrastichal adj. = tetrastichic adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [adjective] > stanzaic > of specific number of lines monostich1656 distichal1778 four-line1827 four-lined1827 distichic1884 tetrastichic1884 tristichic1884 tetrastichal1895 two-line1901 1895 Q. Rev. Jan. 128 A tetrastichal metre should be chosen. tetraˈstichic adj. of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a tetrastich, or consisting of tetrastichs. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [adjective] > stanzaic > of specific number of lines monostich1656 distichal1778 four-line1827 four-lined1827 distichic1884 tetrastichic1884 tristichic1884 tetrastichal1895 two-line1901 1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 1955 The alphabetical psalm ( xxxvii)..is almost entirely tetrastichic. 1890 G. Bickell in Athenæum 22 Nov. 700/3 There are hexastichic strophes throughout Prov. xxx..and tetrastichic ones in i. 7–ix. 18. teˈtrastichism n. the formation of tetrastichs. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > quatrain > formation of tetrastichs tetrastichism1898 1898 R. Ellis in Classical Rev. XII. 120 The process which Rutherford..aptly calls tetrastichism, i.e. reduction of a larger original to a total of four verses. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1580 |
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