Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In prosody, a foot composed of one short and two long syllables, with the ictus on the first long, as in ăvā′ rī, ăbōve′ bōard. See
antibacchius and hemiolic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Pros.) A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun prosody A
metrical foot composed of ashort syllable and twolong ones; according to some, two long and a short.
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For your foote bacchius of a short & two long ye haue these and the like words trisillables [lamenting] [requesting] [renouncing] [repentance] [entering].
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