Definition of Octapody

1. in verse, a line of eight feet [n OCTAPODIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Octapody

octanoses
octanoyl
octanoyl-CoA synthetase
octanoyls
octantal
octants
octaoxide
octaoxides
octapartite
octapeptide
octapeptides
octapla
octaplas
octaploidy
octapody (current term)
octaprenyl pyrophosphate synthetase
octapressin
octapus
octarchies
octarchy
octaroon
octaroons
octas
octastyle
octasulfur
octateuch
octateuchs
octatonic
octatonic scale

Literary usage of Octapody

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

1. Greek Melic Poets by Herbert Weir Smyth (1900)
"We find, however, in v. 2 the penultimate resolved. 11-14: Christ would make an octapody of 11-12. 13-14 form a single period ..."

2. Vocabulary Studies by Fred M. Gerlach (1917)
"octapody (a) Cleft into eight parts. (b) An eight-footed verse or period. (c) A species of octopus. (d) Incomprehensibility. On (a) In contact with the ..."

3. Bulletin by University of Virginia School of Latin (1909)
"... octapody passed over, when the musical accent came to replace the original Indoeuropean stress-accent in Indo-Iranian and Greek. ..."

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