Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An order of Greek physicians, priests of Asclepius or Æsculapius, the god of medicine, whose descendants they claimed to be.
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Examples
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Philip Sidney has given in his Arcadia specimens of hexameters, elegiacs, sapphics, asclepiads, anacreontics, hendecasyllables.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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The extraordinary cases given in a former chapter, of widely different fishes possessing electric organs, of widely different insects possessing luminous organs, and of orchids and asclepiads having pollen-masses with viscid discs, come under this same head of analogical resemblances.
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The buttercup is replaced by the little poisonous yellow oxalis with its viviparous buds; the passion-flowers, asclepiads, bignonias, convolvuluses, and climbing leguminous plants escape both floods and cattle by climbing the highest trees and towering overhead in a flood of bloom.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Not to mention the attempt to write in asclepiads and other classical rhythms, we might point to Sidney's _terza rima_, poems with _sdrucciolo_ or treble rhymes.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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Not to mention the attempt to write in asclepiads and other classical rhythms, we might point to Sidney's _terza rima_, poems with _sdrucciolo_ or treble rhymes.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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