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Definition of Cretic
1. n. A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between two long ones (- ⌣ -).
Definition of Cretic
1. Adjective. Referring to a metrical pattern of poetry where each foot is composed of 3 syllables, the first and third of which are stressed and the second is unstressed. This pattern is very rare in English poetry. ¹
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Definition of Cretic
1. a type of metrical foot [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cretic
Literary usage of Cretic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Greek Grammar: For the Use of Schools and Colleges by Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles (1858)
"Further, it may resolve the long syllables. 1. The cretic manometer consists of
one foot; the trimeter, of three ; the pentameter, of five ; the hexameter, ..."
2. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by James Hadley, Frederic De Forest Allen (1912)
"Much rarer are the real cretic rhythms, in which the cretic (or, by resolution,
the first or fourth paeon) stands as the fundamental foot. ..."
3. The Metres of the Greeks and Romans: A Manual for Schools and Private Study by Eduard Munk (1844)
"The cretic consists of five times, which are proportioned to each other, ...
The cretic is the appropriate measure of Paeans; it is besides sometimes ..."
4. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"The paeon or cretic may form кй\а of two, thre«, or five feet:— "}= j=15 .... cretic ..."
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