| 单词 |
dactylic |
| 释义 |
dactylic, a. and n.|dækˈtɪlɪk|
[ad. L. dactylic-us, a. Gr. δακτυλικός, f. δάκτυλος: see -ic.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, a dactyl; consisting of or characterized by dactyls.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. (Arb.) 130 That which Stanihurst first tooke in hand by his exameters dactilicke and spondaicke in the translation of Virgills Eneidos. 1751Johnson Rambler 94 ⁋9 The power of the spondaick and dactylick harmony. 1853Lowell Moosehead Jrnl. Prose Wks. 1890 I. 11 The dactylic beat of the horses' hoofs. 1871Publ. Sch. Lat. Gram. §225 The Dactylic Hexameter occupies as large a space in Latin poetry as all other Verses together.
B. n. A dactylic verse.
1795Southey (title), The Soldier's Wife. Dactylics. 1797Canning & Gifford Parody in Anti-jacobin No. 6 Ne'er talk of ears again! look at thy spelling-book; Dactylics, call'st thou 'em?—‘God help thee, silly one!’ 1872M. Collins Two Plunges I. v. 103 She got hold of a blind poet..and made him tell the story in dactylics. |
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