Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or constituting a hemistich or hemistichs: as, a hemistichal colon or line; a hemistichal division of a verse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or written in, hemistichs; also, by, or according to, hemistichs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to, or written in,
hemistichs .
Etymologies
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hemistich + -al
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Examples
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It is in poetry; the hemistichal division is mostly observed, but occasionally not so.
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