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“= Ovid allows pentasyllabic words to end the pentameter only in the poetry of exile (Platnauer 17).”
“For Ovid's use of trisyllabic and pentasyllabic endings, see at ix 26”
“The later _Heroides_ have two pentasyllabic pentameter-endings, XVI 290”
“_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”
“(c. 430) after whom the Syriac pentasyllabic verse is called the”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
“Most hymns of this class are in pentasyllabic verses and are the work of the poet Balai (d. about”
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7762 more...
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Words that describe themselves.
polysyllabic, sesquipedalian, common, supercilious, brief, english, erudite, abstraction, awkward, desuete, esoteric, recherché and 16 more...
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