单词 | anacrustic |
释义 | anacrusticadj. Prosody and Music. Characterized by anacrusis (in either sense of anacrusis n.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [adjective] > anacrustic or hyperrhythmical hyperrhythmical1611 anacrustic1872 1872 B. L. Gildersleeve Lat. Gram. (rev. ed.) 360 The Greek anapaest was an anacrustic dactylic measure or march. 1931 Musical Q. 17 376 Worthy of careful and detailed examination are the lovely arabesques... Their anacrustic nature..gives them an inimitable grace and tenderness. 1979 Financial Times 6 Dec. 21/7 A performance that sustained throughout the brisk airiness and discretion of its anacrustic opening. 2001 M. Elizabeth Painless Poetry iv. 243 The use of anacrustic..tetrameter in lines 21 and 22 gives a nice rhythm to St. Nicholas's call to his reindeer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1872 |
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