• Anapaestic

    Full definition of anapaestic

    Adjective

    anapaestic

    1. Alternative spelling of anapestic
      • , Augustus de Morgan, A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Chapter , The public has referred the question to Time: the procedure of this great king I venture to describe, from precedents, by an adaptation of some smart anapaestic tetrameters--your anapaest is the foot for satire to halt on, both in Greek and English--which I read about twenty years ago, and with the point of which I was much tickled.

    Noun

    anapaestic

    (plural anapaestics)
    1. Alternative spelling of anapestic
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