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Definition of Spondaic
1. Adjective. Of or consisting of spondees. "Spondaic hexameter"
Definition of Spondaic
1. a. Or of pertaining to a spondee; consisting of spondees.
Definition of Spondaic
1. Adjective. (poetry) Having or relating to spondees. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spondaic
1. a spondee [n -S] - See also: spondee
Medical Definition of Spondaic
1. Relating to spondee. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spondaic
Literary usage of Spondaic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pencraft: A Plea for the Older Ways by William Watson (1916)
"... antiquity—avoiding as it does both the canter of a too dactylic hexameter and
the laggard pace of a too spondaic one—is a form of verse which sanctions ..."
2. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1908)
"Several writers have noted the usage which characterizes spondaic words in the
first foot (Norden op. tit., p. 145). I have not, however, ..."
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