Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In prosody, constituting or equivalent to a dactyl; pertaining to or characteristic of a dactyl or dactyls; consisting of dactyls: as, a dactylic foot; a dactylic spondee; dactylic rhythm or meter; dactylic verses. The dactylic rhythm in classical poetry was regarded as especially majestic and dignified; a continuous sequence of dactyls, however, produced a relatively lighter and more animated effect, an admixture of spondees giving a more or less heavy or retarded movement to the verse. The most frequent dactylic meter is the hexameter. Other dactylic meters were used in Greek lyric poetry, and in the drama, especially in the earlier period, or in passages expressing lamentation (monodies and commatia). See
hexameter and elegiac. - n. A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls.
- n. plural Meters which consist of a repetition of dactyls or of equivalent feet.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls.
- n. A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls.
- n. Dactylic meters.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or consisting of dactyls
Examples
“While its authorship is often contested, the fact remains that epic poems like The Iliad, written in dactylic hexameters, not only contributed to the evolution of the poetry genre but also to the proliferation of the written word.”
“I’d much rather gush to fellow students about how amazing Hart Crane is than practice outputting lines in dactylic tetrameter.”
“(c) _The third measure_ -- called the dactylic measure -- is formed of a combination of three syllables.”
“But Seely has to work with the less subtle meters of the nursery rhymes and other poems he parodies, such as dactylic and anapestic.”
“dactylic" hexameters of Longfellow, written though they were by a skilful versifier, quite conform to "the nature of the language.”
“To be precise, if he had said: “We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Hindus and cool Jews” then it would be dactylic hexameter:”
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“The first line set the dactylic pattern forme: we SAW the mass GRAVE at the MOS-cow ZOO.”
“But I hear it as a shifting dactylic/trochaic meter that periodically emerges as a series ofiambs.”
“The Nahuatl poems do not display anything like the strict dactylic hexameter of Homeric epic or the seemingly infinite variety of metrical patterns of Pindar's Odes.”
“I just finished teaching dactylic, anapestic, iambic, and trochaic meter to a diverse group of poets at Stonecoast.”
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Prosody
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headless iamb, tailless trochee, dibrach, disyllable, trisyllable, tetrasyllable, pyrrhus, iamb, trochee, choree, choreus, tribrach and 203 more...
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HU Realia
Cultural realia from Hungary.
I have only included realia that already have an English spelling variant and DID NOT include Hungarian words that would be used in English texts unchang...charcoal kiln, embroidered felt ..., farmstead, golden stick, graft, herdsman’s whip, inn, lever well, limekiln, local border traffic, maypole, merino and 356 more...
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ameliorate, cathartic, polemic, dactylic, superfluous, circumvent, timbre
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Adjectival Arcana
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Rime Riche
being words relating to the art of poetry
enjambment, prosody, meter, rhyme, foot, scansion, iamb, hexameter, pentameter, caesura, inversion, headless and 45 more...
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Poetry Rhythms
trochaic, iambic, anapestic, dactylic, monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter
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poetics
quatrain, couplet, villanelle, scansion, sonnet, foot, meter, iambic pentameter, trochaic, anapestic, dactylic, spondaic and 7 more...
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