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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to Cleomachus, a Greek tragic poet of the fifth century b. c.: as, the Cleomachean verse or meter. See II.
  • noun In ancient prosody, a verse consisting of Ionics a majore in dimeters, with contraction in the last foot of each dimeter, and admitting of anaclasis, so that its scheme is

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