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ˈsemi-ped, -pede Pros.
[ad. L. sēmiped-, -pēs, f. sēmi- semi- + ped-, pēs foot.]
A half-foot.
1756T. Sheridan Brit. Educ. (1761) 317 An English heroick verse is composed of ten semipeds, or syllables. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 387 ‘Day{pp} or the sweet approach of even or morn’. Here the cæsura after the first semipede Day, stops us unexpectedly. 1907Omond Eng. Metrists 12 The first six lines of Paradise Lost, each of which consists of ten ‘semi-peds’.
So semipedal a. rare—0 [L. sēmipedālis].
1658Phillips, Semipedal, consisting of half a foot in measure. |