Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In prosody, a foot consisting of three long syllables and one short one, and denominated first, second, third, or fourth epitrite, according as the short syllable is the first, second, third, or fourth: as, sălū tāntēs, cōncĭtātī, īntērcălāns, īncāntārĕ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gr. & Lat. Pros.) A foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable.
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- noun poetry A
metrical foot consisting of three longsyllables and one short syllable.
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Examples
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For five have the sesquialter proportion, three cups of water being mixed in two of wine; three, the double proportion, two being mixed with one; four, the sesquiterce, three cups of water to one of wine, which is the epitrite proportion for those exercising their minds in the council-chamber or frowning over dialectics, when changes of speeches are expected, — a sober and mild mixture.
Symposiacs 2004
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For five have the sesquialter proportion, three cups of water being mixed in two of wine; three, the double proportion, two being mixed with one; four, the sesquiterce, three cups of water to one of wine, which is the epitrite proportion for those exercising their minds in the council-chamber or frowning over dialectics, when changes of speeches are expected, — a sober and mild mixture.
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The second epitrite was considered the most distinctly Doric.
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Edward MacDowell 1884
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