Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of four syllables; pertaining to or consisting of quadrisyllables.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Having four syllables; of or pertaining to quadrisyllables.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having four
syllables .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This distribution contrasts with Ovid's increasing fondness in the _Ex Ponto_ for trisyllabic and quadrisyllabic endings, for which see at ix 26 _tegeret_ and ii 10 _Alcinoo_.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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The fifteen other instances in the _Ex Ponto_ of quadrisyllabic pentameter-endings are II ii 6 _perlegere_, ii 70 _imperium_, iii 18
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Two quadrisyllabic endings occur in the later books of the _Fasti_: V 582 _fluminibus_ and VI 660
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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_penna_ vs. _pinna_, 28, 203 pentameter endings trisyllabic, 294 quadrisyllabic, 164-166 pentasyllabic, 181-182 perfect subjunctive vs. future perfect indicative forms, 215 polyptoton, Ovid's use of, 278, 378
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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In the first five books of the _Tristia_ there are eight such endings, in the first three books of the _Ex Ponto_ there are seven, while in the fourth book there are no less than fourteen instances of quadrisyllabic endings: nearly as many as in all the rest of Ovid's corpus put together. [
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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