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Definition of Amoebean
1. Adjective. Describing a form of (prosody) featuring alternate (responses). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amoebean
1. amebean [adj] - See also: amebean
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amoebean
Literary usage of Amoebean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Beginnings of Poetry by Francis Barton Gummere (1901)
"Thus a pair of quatrains, perhaps amoebean in origin, from near Salzburg :1 —
When it's ... Close to the amoebean, and with two lines essentially the same, ..."
2. Idylls of Fishermen: A History of the Literary Species by Henry Marion Hall (1912)
"Their imitations of earlier poets and their amoebean form give them a place beside
the eclogue, and the dialogues ..."
3. Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1896)
"The form is amoebean (responsive), and reminds one—very distantly—of the pastorals
of Vergil or of Theocritus, as well as of the mediaeval imitations ..."
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