Definition of Pyrrhics

1. Noun. (plural of pyrrhic) ¹

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Definition of Pyrrhics

1. pyrrhic [n] - See also: pyrrhic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyrrhics

pyroxenoid
pyroxenoids
pyroxferroite
pyroxferroites
pyroxmangite
pyroxyle
pyroxyles
pyroxylic
pyroxylin
pyroxyline
pyroxylins
pyrrexhia
pyrrhic
pyrrhicist
pyrrhicists
pyrrhics (current term)
pyrrhotine
pyrrhotite
pyrrhotites
pyrrhous
pyrrhuloxia
pyrrhuloxias
pyrrobutamine
pyrrol
pyrrole
pyrroles
pyrrolic
pyrrolidine
pyrrolidines
pyrrolidinone

Literary usage of Pyrrhics

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

1. The English Prosody: With Rules Deduced from the Genius of Our Language, and by Asa Humphrey (1847)
"pyrrhics are sometimes admissible; as, in the following lines: " Forth I wander'd with delight, And I | knew when days were bright. ..."

2. The Classical Journal (1828)
"ancient or in modern languages: on these grounds the two last syllables of somebody, strawberry, &c. must be pyrrhics, must have the true sound and cadence ..."

3. Werner's Magazine: A Magazine of Expression by Music Teachers National Association (1901)
"Indeed, this last example, though theoretically an iambic line, has but one iambic foot, the first, the remaining four feet being alternate pyrrhics and ..."

4. Institutes of Latin Grammar by John Grant (1808)
"226 formed by spondees, 1/3 by dactyls, lp.2 by pyrrhics, and 211 by monosyllables. He adds tliat 500 of these lines were taken from Virgil's Eclogues, ..."

5. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 93 by Harvard University (1898)
"The natural iambi that appear as pyrrhics are The mihi-ibi class of words are used As pyrrhics 20 times In the sixth foot 24 As iambi 8 ..."

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