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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In ancient prosody, constituting the proportion of 1½ to 1, or of 3 to 2: as, the hemiolic ratio (of thesis and arsis); characterized by such a proportion of thesis and arsis: as, hemiolic rhythm; a hemiolic foot; the hemiolic class of feet.

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