proceleusmatic love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Inciting; animating; encouraging.
  • In prosody, consisting, as a metrical foot, of four short syllables; of or pertaining to feet so constituted.
  • noun In ancient prosody, a foot consisting of four short times or syllables. The proceleusmatic () is tetrasemic and isorrhythmic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Inciting; animating; encouraging.
  • adjective (Pros.) Consisting of four short syllables; composed of feet of four short syllables each.
  • noun (Pros.) A foot consisting of four short syllables.

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  • noun poetry A metrical foot consisting of four short syllables.

Etymologies

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  • The ancient proceleusmatick song, by which the rowers of gallies were animated, may be supposed to have been of this kind.

    —Johnson, Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, 'Raasay'

    October 24, 2008