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Definition of Adonic

Adonic
Adonic A*don"ic, a. [F. adonique: cf. L. Adonius.] Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty. -- n. An Adonic verse. Adonic verse, a verse consisting of a dactyl and spondee (-- [crescent] [crescent] | -- --).

Meaning of Adonic from wikipedia

- An adonic (Latin: adoneus) is a unit of Aeolic verse, a five-syllable metrical foot consisting of a dactyl followed by a trochee. The last line of a Sapphic...
- The Adonia (Gr****: Ἀδώνια) was a festival celebrated annually by women in ancient Greece to mourn the death of Adonis, the consort of Aphrodite. It is...
- always a dactyl, and last must be a spondee/trochee (together forming an adonic). Exceptions can occur when a polysyllabic (especially Gr****) name ends...
- Urban VIII with improved Latin style. The hymn is written in Sapphic and Adonic meter. The earliest versions of the hymn can be found in 8th century m****cripts...
- 3:07 11. "Tonight I Can Write..." Bacalov, Neruda Andy Garcia 2:44 12. "Adonic Angela" Bacalov, Neruda Willem Dafoe 1:21 13. "If You Forget Me" Bacalov...
- who, it is claimed, also wrote the Ad Fidolium, a set of quantitative adonics. The Planctus appeared in a seventeenth-century m****cript compilation...
- typically conceptualized as comprising 3 lesser Sapphic lines followed by an adonic, with the structure: – u u – – classical Latin poets duplicated the Sapphic...
- trochees. In the Sapphic stanza, three hendecasyllabics are followed by an "Adonic" line, made up of a dactyl and a trochee. This is the form of Catullus 51...
- including Sapphic stanzas (comprising 3 hendecasyllabic lines followed by an Adonic): So the goddess fled from her place, with awful Sound of feet and thunder...
- over the land, to act as a fertilizing influence). The Adonia (Ἀδώνια), or Adonic feasts, were ancient feasts instituted in honour of Aphrodite and Adonis...