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Definition of Metrical

1. Adjective. Based on the meter as a standard of measurement. "Metrical equivalents"

Definition of Metrical

1. a. Of or pertaining to the meter; arranged in meter; consisting of verses; as, metrical compositions.

Definition of Metrical

1. Adjective. relating to poetic meter ¹

2. Adjective. having a regular rhythm ¹

3. Adjective. of or pertaining to measurement ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Metrical

1. pertaining to or composed in a system of arranged and measured rhythm [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metrical

Literary usage of Metrical

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

1. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"CHAPTER IV EARLY ROMANCES— metrical Sir Tristrem ... increasing estimate of Chaucer has thrown the Early English metrical romances.1 That Chaucer himself, ..."

2. The Principles of Expression in Pianoforte Playing by Adolph Friedrich Christiani (1885)
"metrical FORMATION.—GENERAL PACTS AND RULES. metrical formation has two extremes—the measure, and the period. The former is the unit, the material of which ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"In spite, however, of its metrical detecta, this famous ode of ... What is requisite is that the ear of the reader should etch a great metrical scheme, ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"Through metrical Speech it finds one channel to express itself. ... Thus it has not only the high spiritual qualities of metrical Poetry, but a noticeable ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In spite, however, of its metrical defects, this famous ode of ... What is requisite is that the ear of the reader should catch a great metrical scheme, ..."

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