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trochaic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trochaic \Tro*cha"ic\, n. (Pros.)
A trochaic verse or measure.
--Dryden.
Trochaic \Tro*cha"ic\, Trochaical \Tro*cha"ic*al\, a. [L. trocha["i]cus, Gr. ? or ?. See Trochee.] (Pros.) Of or pertaining to trochees; consisting of trochees; as, trochaic measure or verse.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"composed of trochees," 1580s, from Middle French trochaïque (1540s) or directly from Latin trochaicus, from Greek trokhaikos "pertaining to or consisting of trochees," from trokhaios (see trochee).
Wiktionary
a. Referring to poetry composed of trochees, foot of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. alt. Referring to poetry composed of trochees, foot of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. n. A poetical composition of this kind.
WordNet
adj. of or consisting of trochees; "trochaic dactyl"
Usage examples of "trochaic".
As to versification, Lanier uses almost all the types of verse -- iambic, trochaic, blank, the sonnet, etc.
Pett about the difference between picric acid and trinitrotoluene, than which a pleasanter topic for the luncheon table could hardly be selected, and the voice of Clarence Renshaw rose above all other competing noises, as he spoke of the functions of the trochaic spondee.
I love to see English poetry move to many measures, to many numbers, but chiefly with the simple iambic and the simple trochaic foot.
Consequently, the classification of verse as iambic, anapestic, trochaic, etc.
The long, rolling, trochaic verse, like the billows on the coast that it pictures, suits the thought.
Their first group singing of a Sunday consisted of Negro spirituals in spondaic and trochaic verse, and phrased in many minors.
Titania are reconciled, she answers his rhymed trochaic tetrameters in kind.
Nala, in order to give the narrative a more easy and trochaic flow, I omitted one syllable, and in some degree changed the structure of the verse.
They have their characters start mouthing trochaic hexameters, or spewing mouthfuls of classical allusions, or talking in formal riddles or paradigms.