Definition of Anapaestic

1. Adjective. (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one.

Exact synonyms: Anapestic
Partainyms: Anapaest, Anapest

Definition of Anapaestic

1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of anapestic) ¹

2. Noun. (alternative spelling of anapestic) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anapaestic

anandite
anandria
anandrous
anangeon
anangioplasia
anangioplastic
anangular
anankastic
ananke
anankes
anantherous
ananthous
ananym
ananyms
anapaest
anapaestic (current term)
anapaestics
anapaests
anapaite
anapeiratic
anapest
anapestic
anapestical
anapestics
anapests
anaphase
anaphase-promoting complex
anaphase-promoting complexes
anaphase I
anaphase II

Literary usage of Anapaestic

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

1. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness, Harkness, Albert, 1822-1907 (1870)
"... as in most kinds of verse (CCS), bnt subject to the ordinary rules of quantity. 3. anapaestic verse does not occar in the best Latin Poets. III. ..."

2. Grammar of the Greek Language: For the Use of High Schools and Colleges by Raphael Kühner (1872)
"The following is the scheme for an anapaestic tetrameter ... The anapaestic metre was the favorite one for martial music. $371. ..."

3. The Principles of Latin Grammar: Comprising the Substance of the Most by Peter Bullions (1859)
"The mixed anapaestic line has a spondee or a dactyl, feet of equal length, ... Obs. anapaestic verses are usually so constructed, that each measure ends ..."

4. A Latin Grammar by Thomas Chase (1882)
"There is a diaeresis after the second foot. 2. The anapaestic dimeter ... regard the first two short syllables in an anapaestic line as an anacrusis, ..."

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