antibacchiusn.
Prosody.
A reversed bacchius, a trisyllabic metrical foot of two long and one short syllable.
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1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xiii. 92 For your foote antibacchius, of two long and a short ye haue these wordes [fōrsākĕn] [īmpūgnĕd].
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