单词 | paroemiac |
释义 | paroemiacparemiacn.adj. A. n. Ancient Greek Prosody. The short line with which an anapaestic system usually ends. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > verse of two measures > types of Adonic1579 paroemiac1803 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 133 The Anapæst Feet run on to the Parœmiac, that is, to the end of the Sett, as if the whole had been a single Verse. 1803 R. Porson Let. to A. Dalzel in Museum Criticum I. 334 The proportion of paroemiacs to other anapaests is scarcely one in ten. 1827 J. Tate in J. W. Donaldson Buckham's Theatre of Greeks (ed. 2) 432 The Paremiac comes most agreeably to the ear, when it presents the latter hemistich of a Dactylic hexameter. 1889 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 10 225 This would lead us to the paroemiac or prosodiac. 1927 Classical Philol. 22 311 It looks as if an unseen influence were calling up an old and lost paroemiac. 1988 Nature 16 June 592/2 I began by looking for a Latin tag from the end of a hexameter, or a proverb in the traditional form of a paroemiac, which metrically comes to the same thing. 1996 Oxf. Classical Dict. 1115/2 The proverb..might be in prose or metrical form, and gave its name to the Paroemiac. B. adj. 1. Ancient Greek Prosody. Of, relating to, or designating verse which ends with a paroemiac (see sense A.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [adjective] > types of dimeter Adonic1671 paroemiac1778 ithyphallic1795 Adonian1871 1778 R. Lowth Isaiah p. xxxii Somewhat like the parœmiac verse of the Greeks. 1861 F. A. Paley in tr. Aeschylus Seven against Thebes in Trag. (ed. 2) 315/2 Probably it was added to make up the paroemiac verse after some word had been lost. 1887 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 8 203 Consequently the paroemiac or catalectic kolon is allowed only at the end. 1901 Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 32 p. x The disuse of strophical responsion and of the paroemiac close is now explained by Leo as corresponding to an actual development in later Greek chorus music. 1961 Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 92 277 This is followed by nineteen paroemiac verses of a Spartan paena to Eurus. 1983 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 104 189 At 152, making up a whole clause, occurs the word..whose paroemiac ending..provides a suitable stopping place for them to perform their proskynesis. 2. Of the nature of a proverb; proverbial. rare.In quot. 1820: of the nature of a parable. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > proverb > [adjective] proverbial?a1475 paroemial1652 proverbed1788 paroemiac1820 1820 A. Knox Let. 29 Nov. in J. Jebb & A. Knox Thirty Years' Corr. (1834) II. 451 It is a transcendent piece of paræmiac composition. 1936 Mod. Lang. Notes 51 537 First and foremost there is the vast paroemiac material, collected and classified. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1699 |
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