rhopalic

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  1. In ancient prosody, noting a hexameter in which each succeeding word contains one syllable more than that preceding it. Also spelled ropalic.

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  1. = French rhopalique, from Late Latin rhopalicus, from Greek ῤοπαλικός, literally like a club (increasing gradually in size from one end to the other), from ῤόπαλον (later Middle Latin rhopalum), a club, from ῤέπειν, incline.
 

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