hexametricadj.
/hɛksəˈmɛtrɪk/ Of or pertaining to a hexameter; consisting of six metrical feet; composed in hexameters.
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hexametrical1781
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hexametral1818
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1785 T. Warton in J. Milton Poems (new ed.) Pref. p. xiv That Ovid among the Latin poets was Milton's favourite, appears not only from his elegiac but his hexametric poetry.
1867 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. Oct. 434 The verses are faultless, are English, are hexametric.
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hexaˈmetrical adj. = main sense.
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hexameter1546
hexametrical1781
hexametric1785
hexametral1818
six-foot1891
1781 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry III. xli. 458 His version of Naogeorgus's hexametrical poem.
1861 Sat. Rev. 27 Apr. 423/1 The intricacies of the hexametrical cæsura.
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