Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Enantiomorphous.
- Relating to antistrophe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to an
antistrophe .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to an antistrophe
Etymologies
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I don't care about antistrophic filtering and texture settings etc etc.. just make it look good.
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The result is much like the preludes that Democritus of Chios jeered at Melanippides for writing instead of antistrophic stanzas —
Rhetoric Aristotle 2002
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Antiphonal and antistrophic structure go easily together: see Deborah's Song, page 152.
Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Richard Green Moulton 1886
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The term strophe has come to be used also for verse paragraphs where there is no antistrophic arrangement.
Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Richard Green Moulton 1886
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/This is one of the most elaborate sonnets: its metrical scheme combines antistrophic and stanza structure
Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Richard Green Moulton 1886
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The metrical scheme is an illustration of 'duplication' applied to antistrophic structure: a quatrain question (strophe 1) has a couplet answer (strophe 2); then the quatrain is duplicated into an octet
Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Richard Green Moulton 1886
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/The metrical scheme of this sonnet is an example of 'antistrophic inversion': that is, two strophes followed by their antistrophes, but the antistrophe to the second strophe precedes the antistrophe to the first.
Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Richard Green Moulton 1886
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The structural form of this ode is antistrophic inversion (7, 6; 6, 7), like that of No./iv/of the
Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Richard Green Moulton 1886
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Why had they not thought of this long ago? and thereupon they reverted to antistrophic laudation of Rhoda Nunn.
The Odd Women George Gissing 1880
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At that moment the voice of the singers, a "voice of joy and health," concentrated itself with solemn antistrophic movement, into an evening, or "candle" hymn.
Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 Walter Pater 1866
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