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Adonic

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Noun

1. adonic, adonic line

a verse line with a dactyl followed by a spondee or trochee; supposedly used in laments by Adonis

Adjective

2. adonic

or relating to or like Adonis

3. adonic

having a rhythm consisting of a dactyl followed by a spondee or a trochee

Example Sentences:
'the verse of the laments is Adonic'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Adonic

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adjective
1. 
(in classical prosody) of or relating to a verse line consisting of a dactyl (– ◡ ◡) followed by a spondee (– –) or by a trochee (– ◡), thought to have been first used in laments for Adonis
2. 
of or relating to Adonis
noun
3. 
an Adonic line or verse

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