Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
prosodiac . - Same as
prosodic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Prosodical.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
prosody .
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Examples
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The following are specimens of his prosodial notions of our English heroic metre.
Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney
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It consists of six hexameter verses in strict prosodial form, followed by versicle, response, and prayer, which vary for the season: until
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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The following are specimens of his prosodial notions of our English heroic metre.
Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899
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Pallas in prosodial hymns, maidens carrying holy vessels, aliens bending beneath the weight of urns, servants of the temple leading oxen crowned with fillets, troops of horsemen reining in impetuous steeds: all these pass before us in the frieze of Pheidias.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866
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Thus the whole scene is a wilderness of brightness, less radiant but more touching than when processions of men and maidens bearing urns and laurel-branches, crowned with ivy or with myrtle, paced along those sandstone roads, chanting pæans and prosodial hymns, toward the glistening porches and hypæthral cells.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866
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Pallas in prosodial hymns, maidens carrying holy vessels, aliens bending beneath the weight of urns, servants of the temple leading oxen crowned with fillets, troops of horsemen reining in impetuous steeds: all these pass before us in the frieze of Pheidias.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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Thus the whole scene is a wilderness of brightness, less radiant but more touching than when processions of men and maidens bearing urns and laurel-branches, crowned with ivy or with myrtle, paced along those sandstone roads, chanting pæans and prosodial hymns, toward the glistening porches and hypæthral cells.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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_ 'The same prosodial fault affects this name as that of _Alexandria_.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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