Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Disconnected; not fitted or adjusted.
- In ancient prosody: With interior catalexis at the end of a colon; procatalectic or dicatalectic: as, an asynartetic verse, meter, or period.
- Composed of cola of different kinds of feet; episynthetic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Disconnected; not fitted or adjusted.
- adjective (Pros.) a verse of two members, having different rhythms; as when the first consists of iambuses and the second of trochees.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
disconnected ; not fitted or adjusted. - adjective poetic Being or relating to a
verse of two members, having differentrhythms , as for example when the first consists ofiambuses and the second oftrochees . - noun poetic A
verse of this kind.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek ἀσυνάρτητος (asunartētos, "disconnected, incoherent") from α- + συναρτάω (sunartaō, "join or knit together") (from σύν (sun, "with") + ἀρτάω (artaō, "fasten or hang onto"))
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