Leoninely

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

  Leonine \Le"o*nine\ (l[=e]"[-o]*n[imac]n), a. [L. leoninus, fr.
     leo, leonis, lion: cf. F. l['e]onin. See {Lion}.]
     Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; as, a leonine
     look; leonine rapacity. -- {Le"o*nine*ly}, adv.
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     {Leonine verse}, a kind of verse, in which the end of the
        line rhymes with the middle; -- so named from Leo, or
        Leoninus, a Benedictine and canon of Paris in the twelfth
        century, who wrote largely in this measure, though he was
        not the inventor. The following line is an example:
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              Gloria factorum temere conceditur horum.
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