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spondaic, a. and n.|spɒnˈdeɪɪk|
Also 8 -aick.
[ad. F. spondaïque (16th c.; = It. spondaico, Sp. and Pg. espondaico), or L. spondaic-us (see spondiac a.). Cf. G. spondäisch.]
A. adj.
1. Of verses (or parts of these):
a. Composed of spondees.
b. Having a spondee in positions where a different foot is normal; esp. of hexameters, having a spondee in the fifth foot.
1722–7Boyer Dict. Royal i, Spondaïque,..a spondaick Verse. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Spondee, There are also Spondee or Spondaic Verses; that is, Verses composed wholly of Spondees, or at least that end with Two Spondees. 1789M. Madan tr. Persius (1795) 34 note, The end of this verse is spondaic. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XV. 254/2 An hexameter line..when regular and not spondaic..never has fewer than thirteen [syllables]. 1847Proc. Philol. Soc. III. 105 The same argument may be drawn from the construction of spondaic anapæstic verses. 1861Paley Aeschylus (ed. 2) Persians 32 note, On the spondaic termination see Suppl. 7.
2. Characterized by a spondee or spondees.
1751Johnson Rambler No. 94 ⁋10 This at least was the power of the spondaick and dactylick harmony. 1773W. Melmoth tr. Cicero, Old Age 193 A certain piece of musick composed in solemn spondaic measures. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 385 The Trochaic, Iambic, or Spondaic [movement]. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1875) III. 225, I do not know the meaning of this strange epithet and spondaic cadence.
3. Of words: Consisting of two long syllables.
a1849Poe Longf., etc. Wks. 1864 III. 364 Our spondees, or, we should say, our spondaic words are rare.
B. n. A spondaic foot or line.
1839T. Mitchell Aristoph., Frogs 357 note, On the anapæstic spondaics which follow, see Hermann. |