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hexametric, a.|hɛksəˈmɛtrɪk|
[f. prec. + -ic.]
Of or pertaining to a hexameter; consisting of six metrical feet; composed in hexameters.
1785Warton Pref. to Milton's Smaller Poems (T.), That Ovid among the Latin poets was Milton's favourite, appears not only from his elegiac but his hexametric poetry. 1867Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (1875) 164 The verses are faultless, are English, are hexametric.
So hexaˈmetrical a. = prec.
1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry lix. (1840) III. 370 His version of Naogeorgus's hexametrical poem. 1861Sat. Rev. 27 Apr. 423/1 The intricacies of the hexametrical cæsura. |