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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, having two periods of growth in one year.
  • In ancient prosody: Having two times or quantities; varying in time; sometimes long and sometimes short; common; doubtful (Latin anceps): as, a dichronous vowel or syllable; representing a doubtful vowel-sound: as, a dichronous letter.
  • Consisting of two normal short times or moræ; disemic: as, a dichronous foot; lasting for the space of two times or moræ: as, a dichronous long (that is, an ordinary long, equal to two shorts, distinguished from a trichronous or other protracted long): as, a dichronous pause. See disemic.

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Examples

  • In these three respects therefore, as the conquerors in all the five exercises, it claims the precedence, — that of most other letters by being a vowel, that of other vowels by being dichronous, and lastly, that of these double-timed vowels themselves because it is its nature to go before and never after them.

    Symposiacs 2004

  • In these three respects therefore, as the conquerors in all the five exercises, it claims the precedence, — that of most other letters by being a vowel, that of other vowels by being dichronous, and lastly, that of these double-timed vowels themselves because it is its nature to go before and never after them.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

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