dochmiacadj.n.
/ˈdɒkmɪak/ Ancient Greek Prosody.
A. adj.
Of the nature of a dochmius; composed of dochmii, i.e. of pentasyllabic feet of which the typical form is ˘ ¯ ¯ ˘ ¯.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [adjective] > having five syllables
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dochmiac1775
dochmiacal1821
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Dochmaic a. and sb.
1844 C. Beck & C. C. Felton tr. E. Munk Metres Greeks & Romans 255 The dochmiac systems are very frequent in the Greek dramatists.
1867 R. C. Jebb Sophocles' Electra (1870) 25/1 A dochmiac verse.
B. n.
A foot or verse of this description.
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dochmiac1775
1775 [see sense A.].
1867 R. C. Jebb Sophocles' Electra (1870) 22/1 The normal dochmiac.
Derivatives
dochˈmiacal adj. connected with (in quot., learned in) dochmiac verse.
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pentasyllabica1771
dochmiac1775
dochmiacal1821
1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 8 683 ‘The most dochmiacal Seidlerus’. That most facete scholar being particularly sublime upon the dochmius.
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