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- adjective Obsolete form of
iambic . - noun Obsolete form of
iambic .
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Examples
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The feet of our verses are either iambick, as alóft, creáte; or trochaick, as hóly, lófty.
A Grammar of the English Tongue Samuel Johnson 1746
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And following this obseruation your meetres being builded with polysillables will fall diuersly out, that is some to be spondaick, some iambick, others dactilick, others trockaick, and of one mingled with another, as in this verse.
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Rage armed Archilochus with the iambick of his own * invention.
The Works of Horace 1780
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For he makes no difficulty to mingle hexameter with iambick trcmeters; or with trochaick tetrameters j as appears by thofe fragments which arc yet remaining of hira: Horace has thought him worthy to be copied j in - ferring many things of his into his own lathes, as Vir - gil has done in his JEneid.
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_spondaick_, some _iambick_, others _dactilick_, others _trochaick_, and of one mingled with another, as in this verse.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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