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hendecasyllable Pros.|ˌhɛndɪ-, hɛnˌdɛkəˈsɪləb(ə)l|
Also erron. en-.
[f. L. hendecasyllabus, a. Gr. ἑνδεκασύλλαβ-ος, after syllable.]
A ‘verse’ or line of eleven syllables; = prec. B.
1746W. Melmoth Pliny iv. xiv. (R.), I design to give these trifles the title of hendecasyllables. 1775Tyrwhitt Ess. Versif. Chaucer iii. §7 note in Chaucer's Wks., As the French Alexandrin may be composed of twelve or thirteen syllables, and the Italian Hendecasyllable of ten, eleven, or even twelve. 1823tr. Sismondi's Lit. Eur. (1846) I. viii. 264 The verses, thus interlinked, are all endecasyllables. 1871R. Ellis Catullus Pref. xiii, Had Sir Philip Sidney written..every hendecasyllable like ‘Where sweet graces erect the stately banner’. |