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单词 half-line
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half-line
half-line n. half of a line of text or (esp.) verse; used spec. in relation to the verse of Old English and other medieval Germanic languages.
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section1838
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1609 J. Boys Expos. Princ. Script. 107 Let the Nouelists here blush, who calumniously censure our Church for omitting in the proeme of the Decalogue one halfe line: when as themselues in their owne Communion bookes haue left out all the whole law.
1612 T. Heywood Apol. for Actors sig. G3 Infinite faults..as misquotations, mistaking of sillables, misplacing half lines, coining of strange and neuer heard of words.
1730 L. Welsted & J. M. Smythe One Epist. to Pope 10 The Bard! that..plunder'd every Dunce that writ before, Catching half lines, till the tun'd Verse went round, Complete, in smooth dull Unity of Sound.
1864 H. Morley Eng. Writers I. 251 The most important is a heroic poem..extending..to 6357 of the short Anglo-Saxon lines, or half lines, as they are usually printed.
1927 E. V. Gordon Introd. Old Norse 293 In ON. tradition the unit verse was not the long line, but the half-line, which was called a vísa or line.
2011 M. McGillivray Gentle Introd. Old Eng. xii The half-lines were only occasionally, and then as a kind of extra fancy patterning, connected with rhyme.
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half-line
half-line n. [line n.2 23e] Prosody half of a line of verse, used esp. of Old English and related verse.
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1864 H. Morley Eng. Writers I. 251 The most important is a heroic poem..extending..to 6357 of the short Anglo-Saxon lines, or half lines, as they are usually printed.
1900 A. S. Cook Christ of Cynewulf 70 Half-line space.
1910 F. Tupper Riddles of Exeter Bk. 220 The half-line is of the A-type..common in the Riddles.
1927 E. V. Gordon Introd. Old Norse 293 In ON. tradition the unit verse was not the long line, but the half-line, which was called a vísa or line.
1964 Eng. Stud. 45 38 The patronymic epithet is separated from its antecedent by at least a full half-line.
1965 Eng. Stud. 46 420 In Germanic the basic principle is stress, together with a division into half-lines.
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