Definition of Metrists

1. Noun. (plural of metrist) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Metrists

1. metrist [n] - See also: metrist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metrists

metricizes
metricizing
metrics
metrification
metrifications
metrified
metrifies
metrifonate
metrify
metrifying
metring
metriocephalic
metriopatheia
metriplectic
metrist
metrists (current term)
metritides
metritis
metritises
metrizable
metrizamide
metrizoate
metrizoate sodium
metrizoic acid
metro
metro-
metro station
metrochrome
metrochromes
metrocyte

Literary usage of Metrists

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Time in English Verse Rhythm: An Empirical Study of Typical Verses by the by Warner Brown (1908)
"CHAPTER IV TIME RELATIONS IN THE THEORIES OF THE metrists AND POETS THIS is no place to go into details of literary disputes, but the opinions of some of ..."

2. The Modern Language Quarterly by Walter Wilson Greg (1903)
"... side of the Atlantic should waste their time and energies in editing perfectly worthless copies of extant and accessible texts. WWG English metrists. ..."

3. The Psychology of Mentally Deficient Children by Naomi Norsworthy (1908)
"1 For a bibliography of metrists see Gayley and Scott, " An Introduction to the Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism," Chap. 7, 1899; Omond, T. 8., ..."

4. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"It is rightly held by most metrists that there is a deliberately produced coincidence of ictus and accent in the last two feet of the classical hexameter ..."

5. Chapters on English Metre by Joseph Bickersteth Mayor (1886)
"There still remain two points for consideration, the one the inconsistent results obtained by the old metrists, the other the challenge offered to explain ..."

6. The Principles of English Verse by Charlton Miner Lewis (1906)
"metrists usually say that the pyrrhic is sometimes admitted in iambic verse; and some leading authorities point out that it generally is found with a ..."

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