单词 | heptasyllabic |
释义 | heptasyllabicadj.n. A. adj. Containing or consisting of seven syllables. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [adjective] > having seven syllables heptasyllabic1889 1889 A. C. Swinburne Study of Jonson 56 His use of the sweet and simple heptasyllabic metre. B. n. n. A verse or metrical line of seven syllables. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > seven syllables heptasyllabica1771 seven1781 a1771 T. Gray Observ. Eng. Metre in Wks. (1814) II. 26 With Heptasyllabicks mixed at pleasure. 1885 P. Perring Hard Knots 78 What is admitted in a decasyllabic line, must be admitted in a heptasyllabic. Derivatives heptaˈsyllable n. rare a word or metrical line of seven syllables. ΚΠ 1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall 296 It is the Trochaic Heptasyllable, otherwise called the Trochaic Diameter Catalectic. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < adj.n.1758 |
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