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▪ I. cretic, a.1 and n.|ˈkriːtɪk|
[ad. L. Crētic-us of Crete, Cretan, f. Crēta Crete.]
A. adj. Belonging to Crete, Cretan; applied in Gr. and Lat. prosody to a particular metrical foot, or to verse characterized by these.
B. n. (without capital) A metrical foot consisting of one short syllable between two long; = amphimacer.
[1586W. Webbe Eng. Poetrie (Arb.) 69 Creticus of a long, a short, and a long, [as] daungerous. ]1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. lxviii. 1257 The Prosodiaque & also the Creticke. 1697Bentley Phal. (T.), The first verse here ends with a trochee, and the third with a cretick. 1867Jebb Sophocles' Electra (1870) 39/1 Although τῶνδέ µοι form a cretic foot, a spondee is still admissible in the 5th place, because the word γάρ preceding the cretic is a monosyllable. 1885Gildersleeve Pindar Introd. 73 The passionate cretics that abound in that..play [the Acharnians].
▪ II. † cretic, a.2 Obs. rare.|ˈkriːtɪk|
[f. L. crēta chalk +-ic.]
Chalk-like; of the hardness of chalk.
1811Pinkerton Petral. 302 Hardness, cretic. Fracture, slaty. |