Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun [capitalized] In ancient prosody, an Asclepiadic (verse or line).
- noun In botany, a member of the order Asclepiadaceæ.
- noun [capitalized] One of the Asclepiads (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gr. & L. Pros.) A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.
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- noun any plant of the family Asclepiadaceae
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Examples
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( "Yes," she said, luring me into her tale, "it did involve an asclepiad.")
A Conversation with Rabih Alameddine, author of The Hakawati 2010
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Philip Sidney written every asclepiad on the model of Where man's mind hath a freed consideration, every hendecasyllable like Where sweet graces erect the stately banner, the adjustment of accent and quantity thus attained might, I think, have induced greater poets than he to make the experiment on a larger scale.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Had Sir Philip Sidney written every asclepiad on the model of _Where man's mind hath a freed consideration_, every hendecasyllable like _Where sweet graces erect the stately banner_, the adjustment of accent and quantity thus attained might, I think, have induced greater poets than he to make the experiment on a larger scale.
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
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What are the different forms of the asclepiad metre in Horace?
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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Its line, which reminded us of the Dámah, is well marked by unusually fine vegetation: and the basin bears large clumps of fan-palm, scattered Daum-trees, the giant asclepiad El-Ushr, [EN#64] thickets of tamarisk and scatters of the wild castor-plant, whose use is unknown to the Arabs.
The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Its line, which reminded us of the Dámah, is well marked by unusually fine vegetation: and the basin bears large clumps of fan-palm, scattered Daum-trees, the giant asclepiad El-‘Ushr,222 thickets of tamarisk and scatters of the wild castor-plant, whose use is unknown to the Arabs.
The Land of Midian 2003
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