creticadj.1n.
/ˈkriːtɪk/, U.S. /ˈkridɪk/ A. adj.1
Belonging to Crete, Cretan; applied in Greek and Latin prosody to a particular metrical foot, or to verse characterized by these.
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cretic1867
1867 R. C. Jebb 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.
B. n.
(without capital) A metrical foot consisting of one short syllable between two long; = amphimacer n.
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amphimacer1589
cretic1603
1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. G.iiii Creticus of a long, a short, and a long, as-u-daungerous.]
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1257 The Prosodiaque & also the Creticke.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 140 The first Verse here ends with a Trochee, and the third with a Cretic.
1885 B. L. Gildersleeve Pindar Introd. 73 The passionate cretics that abound in that..play [the Acharnians].
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† creticadj.2
/ˈkriːtɪk/, U.S. /ˈkridɪk/ Obsolete. rare.
Chalk-like; of the hardness of chalk.
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1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. 302 Hardness, cretic. Fracture, slaty.
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