Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In prosody, a foot of three syllables, the first two long and the last one short.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Pros.) A foot of three syllables, the first two long, and the last short (#).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A rare
metrical foot consisting of twoaccented syllables followed by one unaccented syllable, as in "Blind luck is / loved more than / hard thinking".
Etymologies
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anti- + bacchius
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Examples
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For your foote _antibacchius_, of two long and a short ye haue these words
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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The tribrachus all his three parts swiftly: the antibacchius his two first partes slowly, his last & third swiftly: the amphimacer, his first & last part slowly & his middle part swiftly: the amphibracus his first and last parts swiftly but his midle part slowly, & so of others by like proportion.
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_antibacchius_ his two first partes slowly, his last & third swiftly: the
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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