Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In prosody, same as trochee. The word choree (choreus,
χορει%26ος ) was used by the earlier classical writers on metrics as identical with trochee, to designate both the foot now called trochee (−⌣) and its resolved form the tribrach (⌣⌣⌣), but more frequently the latter. Cicero and Quintilian call the trochee (−⌣) choreus, and the tribrach (⌣⌣⌣) trochæus. Later writers use the names trochæus and tribrachys exclusively for the feet still known by those names. Choree or choreus in modern usage is simply a rare name for trochee (−⌣). Also calledchoreus .
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. See choreus.
Examples
“But there are several numbers for concluding a period, one of which (called the _dichoree_, or double _choree_, and consisting of a long and a short syllable repeated alternately) is much in vogue with the”
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.
“The _iambic_, therefore, which consists of a long syllable and a short one, and is equal in time, though not in the number of it's syllables, to a _choree_, which has three short ones; or even the _dactyl_, which consists of one long and two short syllables, will unite agreeably enough with the last foot of a sentence, when that foot is either a _choree_ or a _spondee_; for it is immaterial which of them is employed.”
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.
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headless iamb, tailless trochee, dibrach, disyllable, trisyllable, tetrasyllable, pyrrhus, iamb, trochee, choree, choreus, tribrach and 173 more...
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