Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inciting; animating; encouraging.
- In prosody, consisting, as a metrical foot, of four short syllables; of or pertaining to feet so constituted.
- noun In ancient prosody, a foot consisting of four short times or syllables. The proceleusmatic () is tetrasemic and isorrhythmic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Pros.) A foot consisting of four short syllables.
- adjective rare Inciting; animating; encouraging.
- adjective (Pros.) Consisting of four short syllables; composed of feet of four short syllables each.
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- noun poetry A
metrical foot consisting offour shortsyllables .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dr Johnson discovered in it the proceleusmatic song of the ancients; it certainly corresponds in real usage with the poet's description: --
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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But by virtue of the last principle -- the retardation or acceleration of time -- we have the proceleusmatic foot ****, and the 'dispondaeus' --
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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But by virtue of the last principle — the retardation of acceleration of time — we have the proceleusmatic foot u u u u, and the _dispondæus_ ----, not to mention the _choriambus_, the ionics, pæons, and epitrites.
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
qroqqa commented on the word proceleusmatic
The ancient proceleusmatick song, by which the rowers of gallies were animated, may be supposed to have been of this kind.
—Johnson, Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, 'Raasay'
October 24, 2008