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anapestic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anapestic \An`a*pes"tic\, a. [L. anapaesticus, Gr. ?.] Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse. -- n. Anapestic measure or verse.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from Latin anapaesticus, from Greek anapaistikos, from anapaistos (see anapest).
Wiktionary
a. 1 of, or relating to, or composed of an anapest. 2 of, or relating to, one of the distinct beats in a (human?) heartbeat pattern. 3 of, or relating to, a rhythmic pattern used in certain forms of poetry (see also limeric or limerick). 4 of, or relating to, certain beats in specific types of drum rhythms, e.g. specific beats within the part played by the "surdo" drum. Surdo literally means "deaf" in Brasilian Portuguese, and the surdo drums play the bass parts in a samba rhythm as performed by a batucada (drumming ensemble) during the Carnaval celebration. alt. 1 of, or relating to, or composed of an anapest. 2 of, or relating to, one of the distinct beats in a (human?) heartbeat pattern. 3 of, or relating to, a rhythmic pattern used in certain forms of poetry (see also limeric or limerick). 4 of, or relating to, certain beats in specific types of drum rhythms, e.g. specific beats within the part played by the "surdo" drum. Surdo literally means "deaf" in Brasilian Portuguese, and the surdo drums play the bass parts in a samba rhythm as performed by a batucada (drumming ensemble) during the Carnaval celebration. n. A verse that contains anapestic foot
WordNet
adj. (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one [syn: anapaestic]
Usage examples of "anapestic".
Consequently, the classification of verse as iambic, anapestic, trochaic, etc.
And Furvain, glancing for just a moment into his wine-bowl as though some poem might be lurking there, would draw a deep breath and instantaneously begin to recite a mock epic, in neatly balanced hexameter and the most elaborate of anapestic rhythms, about the desperate craving of a Pontifex for sausage made of steetmoy meat, and the sending of the laziest and most cowardly of the royal courtiers on a hunting expedition to the snowbound lair of that ferocious white-furred creature of northern Zimroel.
We are naturally shocked at the clothing of a grave subject in anapestic metre, or the treatment of a long and lofty theme in short, choppy lines.
It was like a line of verse anapestic tetrameter, or four metric feet, each foot consisting of three syllables, accented on the third.
His viking code, with its swift anapestic rhythm, has a breezy melody which sings in the ear.
I twisted in my pneumatic womb symbol, trying to think of something I could do, but all I could think of was a foolish phrase that kept running through my mind on anapestic feet:In the country of the normal the neurotic man is king .