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Definition of Anapaestic
1. Adjective. (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one.
Definition of Anapaestic
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of anapestic) ¹
2. Noun. (alternative spelling of anapestic) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anapaestic
Literary usage of Anapaestic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Albert Harkness, Harkness, Albert, 1822-1907 (1870)
"... as in most kinds of verse (CCS), bnt subject to the ordinary rules of quantity.
3. anapaestic verse does not occar in the best Latin Poets. III. ..."
2. Grammar of the Greek Language: For the Use of High Schools and Colleges by Raphael Kühner (1872)
"The following is the scheme for an anapaestic tetrameter ... The anapaestic metre
was the favorite one for martial music. $371. ..."
3. The Principles of Latin Grammar: Comprising the Substance of the Most by Peter Bullions (1859)
"The mixed anapaestic line has a spondee or a dactyl, feet of equal length, ...
Obs. anapaestic verses are usually so constructed, that each measure ends ..."
4. A Latin Grammar by Thomas Chase (1882)
"There is a diaeresis after the second foot. 2. The anapaestic dimeter ...
regard the first two short syllables in an anapaestic line as an anacrusis, ..."
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