Definition of Hemistichs

1. Noun. (plural of hemistich) ¹

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Definition of Hemistichs

1. hemistich [n] - See also: hemistich

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemistichs

hemispherically
hemispherium
hemispherium cerebelli
hemispherium cerebri
hemispheroid
hemispheroidal
hemispheroids
hemispherule
hemispherules
hemisphære
hemisphæres
hemisphæric
hemistich
hemistichal
hemistichs (current term)
hemistrumectomy
hemists
hemisubstance
hemisulfate
hemisulfates
hemisulfur mustard
hemisulphate
hemisulphates
hemisyndrome
hemisystole
hemisystoles
hemiterpene
hemiterpenes

Literary usage of Hemistichs

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

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In 'Piers Plowman' the line is constructed with two hemistichs, the former with two words beginning with the alliterative letter, and the latter with one, ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... these being the initial syllables of the hemistichs of a hymn on John the Baptist. He improved the system which already existed by the use of additional ..."

3. Memoirs of the Life of William Shakespeare: With an Essay Toward the by Richard Grant White (1866)
"... is precluded by the fact that these hemistichs generally rhyme with the following line. Fifteen of the eighteen instances in question have this ..."

4. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1902)
"All the hemistichs down to No. 6 inclusive are termed the " Initial Obverse ... hemistichs 7 to 12 (in some cases 7 to 14) are the " Initial Reverse " or ..."

5. The Great Epic of India: Its Character and Origin by Edward Washburn Hopkins (1901)
"This occurs just at the middle of a selection like those above of one thousand hemistichs. Now up to this point there is no fourth ..."

6. The book of Proverbs: Critical Edition of the Hebrew Text by August Müller, Emil Kautzsch, Duncan Black Macdonald (1901)
"d being dropped because the combination of the first and the last hemistichs (17" and') formed a suitable ^юВ. That the intervening lines in в arc based on ..."

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