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Definition of Dibrach
1. Noun. A metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables.
Generic synonyms: Foot, Metrical Foot, Metrical Unit
Derivative terms: Pyrrhic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dibrach
Literary usage of Dibrach
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Whole Language by John Walker, John Longmuir (1902)
"... two syllables may be thus arranged, , or spondee ; ^-- i—', or dibrach; — ^,
or trochee ; and ^-' —, or iamb ; and all these arrangements ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1810)
"... I read prose or verse, am always word “ pibroch,” or “ dibrach” as he .
desirous to affix a ..."
3. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher: Notes and Lectures by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1874)
"... some correct examples in English of the principle metrical feet :— Pyrrhic or
dibrach, uu ^ body, spirit. Tribrach, uou = nobody, hastily pronounced. ..."
4. The Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Whole Language by John Walker (1904)
"... or to express the same ideas by signs ; two syllables may be thus arranged, ,
or spondee ; ^ ^, or dibrach ; — •**>, or trochee ; and *-> —, or iamb ..."
5. English Metrists in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Being a Sketch by Thomas Stewart Omond (1907)
"... or dibrach—and representing " metres " by musical symbols, as others had done
before him, he reduces all quoted verse to his Procrustes- measures, ..."
6. The Art of the Player-piano: A Text-book for Student and Teacher by Sydney Grew (1922)
"The pyrrhic is sometimes called the " dibrach." A long and a short form a "
trochee," or, in alternative term, ..."
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