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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Consisting of half an elegiac pentameter followed by an iambic dimeter; being or constituting an elegiambus (which see): as, an elegiambic verse.
  • noun A verse consisting of a dactylic penthemim followed by an iambic dimeter; an elegiambus (which see).

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