anapæst
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ăʹnəpĕst, ăʹnəpēst, IPA(key): /ˈæn.ə.pɛst/,[1] /ˈæn.ə.piːst/,[1]
- Rhymes: -ɛst, -iːst
Noun
anapæst (plural anapæsts)
- Archaic form of anapest.
- 1885, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Intellectual Life, page 174 (J.B. Alden)
- The situations of imaginary glory which he draws for himself, are the detection of an anapæst in the wrong place, or the restoration of a dative case which Cranzius had passed over and the never-dying Ernesti failed to observe.
- 1885, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Intellectual Life, page 174 (J.B. Alden)
Related terms
- anapæstic
- anapæstical
- anapæstically
References
- “anapæst” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
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