Definition of Scansions

1. Noun. (plural of scansion) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scansions

1. scansion [n] - See also: scansion

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scansions

scanning electron microscopy
scanning equalization radiography
scanning speech
scanning transmission electron microscope
scanning transmission electron microscopes
scanning transmission electron microscopy
scanning tunneling microscope
scanning tunneling microscopes
scanning tunnelling microscopy
scannings
scanno
scannos
scanogram
scans
scansion
scansions (current term)
scanslation
scansores
scansorial
scant
scant(p)
scanted
scanter
scantest
scantier
scanties
scantiest
scantily
scantily clad
scantiness

Literary usage of Scansions

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

1. Classical Quarterly by Classical Association (Great Britain) (1908)
"... or conjoined phrase, beginning with a vowel : every possible device is employed to obtain true scansions of the type /ueA«T<raa>i' ..."

2. The Classical World by Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1908)
"Mr. Fairclough says that I accept certain scansions "which are now ... But as a matter of fact these scansions have not been "generally discarded". ..."

3. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1869)
"The shortening of the first syllable of exercitus, which Professor Ramsay gets rid of by unnatural scansions, might be supported by the shortening of the ..."

4. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"The same thing happened apparently to a final long vowel or diphthong when the next word began with a vowel or h, so that scansions like Plautus, Aul. ..."

5. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"232 K.), cannot explain Virgilian scansions like canto, except on the theory that they are imitations of the Greek -<o of -now, Sec. ..."

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