Iambic

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Iambic \I*am"bic\, a. [L. iambicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. iambique.]
     1. (Pros.) Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long
        one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented;
        as, an iambic foot.
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     2. Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic
        verse; iambic meter. See {Lambus}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Iambic \I*am"bic\, n.
     1. (Pros.)
        (a) An iambic foot; an iambus.
        (b) A verse composed of iambic feet.
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     Note: The following couplet consists of iambic verses.
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                 Thy gen- | ius calls | thee not | to pur- | chase
                 fame
                 In keen | iam- | bics, but | mild an- | agram.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     2. A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written
        in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  iambic
       adj : of or consisting of iambs; "iambic pentameter"
       n : a verse line consisting of iambs

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  87 Moby Thesaurus words for "iambic":
     Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer,
     anacrusis, anapest, antispast, antispastic, arsis, bacchius, beat,
     cadence, cadenced, caesura, catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus,
     colon, counterpoint, cretic, dactyl, dactylic, dactylic hexameter,
     diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, dochmiac, elegiac, elegiac couplet,
     elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, feminine caesura, foot,
     heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, iamb,
     iambic pentameter, ictus, ionic, jingle, lilt, masculine caesura,
     measure, measured, meter, metric, metrical accent, metrical foot,
     metrical group, metrical unit, metron, molossus, mora, movement,
     numbers, paeon, pentameter, pentapody, period, proceleusmatic,
     prosodic, pyrrhic, quantity, rhythm, rhythmic, scanning, spondaic,
     spondee, sprung rhythm, stress, swing, syzygy, tetrameter,
     tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme,
     trochaic, trochee