Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Containing 11 syllables.
- noun A verse of 11 syllables, especially one that follows one of various classically established metrical patterns.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of eleven syllables: as, a hendecasyllabic line or verse.
- noun In prosody, a line or colon (series) consisting of eleven syllables. In ancient metrics the name is especially given to certain frequent logaœdic meters, namely: the alcaic hendecasyllabic , the Phalæcean hendecasyllabic , and the Sapphic hendecasyllabic . This last in the form is the Pindaric hendecasyllabic. An Archilochian hendecasyllabic is an iambic trimeter catalectic . An example of Phalæcean hendecasyllabics in English is
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to a line of eleven syllables.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having eleven
syllables . - noun A word or line of eleven syllables.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Fourthly, if you take account of the said troublesome E, almost universally these deficient measures become filled up to the due complement -- become decasyllabic or hendecasyllabic, as the case may be.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various
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That Chaucer admits the doubled ending we see by numerous unequivocal instances from all moods of the verse, mirthful and solemn; these show a versification friendly to the doubled ending; and must go far to remove any scruple of admitting Tyrwhitt's conception of it as generally hendecasyllabic.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various
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In the course of his recitation he had produced a small hendecasyllabic poem in praise of Pliny's own verses.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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The metres most often employed are elegiac, hendecasyllabic, and the scazon.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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In the hendecasyllabic he is smoother and more polished.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Finally, I resolved to follow the example of many other writers and compose a whole separate volume in the hendecasyllabic metre; nor do I regret having done so.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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He used all metres — iambic, elegiac, hendecasyllabic, and the hexameter — and wrote in Greek as well as in Latin.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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It is composed of a hundred cantos, written in the measure known as terza rima, with its normally hendecasyllabic lines and closely linked rhymes, which Dante so modified from the popular poetry of his day that it may be regarded as his own invention.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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The three hundred and fifty-eight dedicatory epigrams include sixteen in hexameter and iambic, and one in hendecasyllabic; and among the seven hundred and fifty sepulchral epigrams are forty-two in hexameter, iambic, and other mixed metres.
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902
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In a hundred and thirty-three hendecasyllabic verses the story of
A Mere Accident 1892
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