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Definition of Hypermetric
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypermetric
Literary usage of Hypermetric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Atharva-veda Saṁhitā by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
"Our suspicions of hypermetric words as glosses are often confirmed by the downright
absence of those words in the parallel texts. ..."
2. Atharva-Veda Samhita by William Dwight Whitney, Charles Rockwell Lanman (1905)
"Our suspicions of hypermetric words as glosses are often confirmed by the downright
absence of those words in the parallel texts. ..."
3. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1907)
"As stated before, even padas are less often hypermetric than odd padas ; of the
former there are thirteen (18f, 281, 29j, 291, 32f, 42h, 64h, 70h, 75b, 77f, ..."
4. A Manual of Our Mother Tongue by Henry Marmaduke Hewitt (1889)
"... cannot be used with hypermetric feet. (c) Triple Rhymes (which should not be
confounded with rhyming triplets) are employed with perfect Dactyls, ..."
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