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Definition of Hexameter
1. Noun. A verse line having six metrical feet.
Definition of Hexameter
1. n. A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Æneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity.
2. a. Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees.
Definition of Hexameter
1. Noun. a line in a poem having six metrical feet ¹
2. Noun. a poetic metre in which each line has six feet ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hexameter
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Medical Definition of Hexameter
1. A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity. "Leaped like the | roe when he | hears in the | woodland the | voice of the | huntsman." (Longfellow) "Strongly it | bears us a- | long on | swelling and | limitless | billows, Nothing be- | fore and | nothing be- | hind but the | sky and the | ocean." (Coleridge) Origin: L, fr. Gr. Of six meters; (sc) hexameter verse; six + measure: cf. F. Hexametre. See Six, and Meter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hexameter
Literary usage of Hexameter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames (1819)
"And the composition of an hexameter line demonstrates this to be true, without
necessity of an experiment; for, as will appear afterward, there must always, ..."
2. Journal of Biblical Literature by Society of Biblical Literature (1908)
"Note on the hexameter in James 1 IT WILLIAM HP HATCH GENERAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY,
NEW YORK JAS. l IT contains, as every student of the Epistle knows, ..."
3. A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language by George Lillie Craik (1871)
"Nash, again, profanely characterizes the said hexameter as " that drunken, ...
ENGLISH hexameter VERSE. HARVEY, however, did not want imitators in his ..."
4. A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect by David Binning Monro (1891)
"The hexameter. 366.] The verse in which the Homeric poems are composed— the heroic
hexameter—consists of BIS. feet, of equal length, each of which again is ..."
5. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough (1916)
"DACTYLIC VERSE Dactylic hexameter 615. The Dactylic hexameter, or Heroic Verse,
consists theoretically of six dactyls. It may be represented thus ..."
6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"Tale ' he cites in ridicule a hexameter from the poem of Gabriel Harvey [qv],
... The theory appears to rest on the very slender fact that one hexameter is ..."
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