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Definition of Hendecasyllabic
1. a. Pertaining to a line of eleven syllables.
Definition of Hendecasyllabic
1. Adjective. Having eleven syllables. ¹
2. Noun. A word or line of eleven syllables. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hendecasyllabic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hendecasyllabic
Literary usage of Hendecasyllabic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of French Versification by Leon Emile Kastner (1903)
"The hendecasyllabic line was also divided in this way by those poets of the ...
This seems the best division of the hendecasyllabic line : La triste|sse, ..."
2. The Classical Journal (1826)
"We have now seen that there are four hendecasyllabic •' Measures formed ...
Plotius ap. eundem 2664. a Besides these there are other hendecasyllabic ..."
3. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature by John Addington Symonds (1881)
"The Italian hendecasyllabic, the French Alexandrian, the English heroic iambic,
are obvious examples. This selection of a characteristic metre, ..."
4. Greek and Roman Versification: With an Introduction on the Development of by Lucian Müller, Samuel Ball Platner (1892)
"In Horace, too, a spondaic word-ending never occurs as the second foot of the
Sapphic hendecasyllabic, but, on the other hand, he has sometimes a dactylic ..."
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