Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of or written in six metrical feet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of six metrical feet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to or exhibiting
hexameter .
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Examples
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It is unfortunately impossible to trace the plan of the poem, which presumably detailed the adventures of this unheroic character: the metre used was a curious mixture of hexametric and iambic lines.
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It is unfortunately impossible to trace the plan of the poem, which presumably detailed the adventures of this unheroic character: the metre used was a curious mixture of hexametric and iambic lines.
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I notice that the reviewers have been a little shy of these hexametric efforts.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 Various
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