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Definition of Dactylic

Dactylic
Dactylic Dac*tyl"ic, a. [L. dactylicus, Gr. ?, fr. ?.] Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses.
Dactylic
Dactylic Dac*tyl"ic, n. 1. A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics. 2. pl. Dactylic meters.

Meaning of Dactylic from wikipedia

- poetry in both languages, the elegiac couplet being a dactylic hexameter line paired with a dactylic pentameter line: 45 : 104 . This form of verse was used...
- Look up dactyl in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dactyl may refer to: Dactyl (mythology), a legendary being Dactyl (poetry), a metrical unit of verse...
- syllable). An example of dactylic meter is the first line of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem Evangeline (1847), which is in dactylic hexameter: This is...
- In Gr**** mythology, the Dactyls or Daktyloi (/ˈdæktɪlz/; from Ancient Gr****: Δάκτυλοι Dáktuloi "fingers") were the archaic mythical race of male beings...
- Pope Gregory I, in double-dactylic rhyme, Oxford: Oxbow Books, ISBN 1842171119 Catalyst Library Alex Chaffee. "Double Dactyls". Archived from the original...
- tetrameter Dactylic pentameter Dactylic hexameter Double dactyl This disambiguation page lists articles ****ociated with the title Dactylic metre. If an...
- Dactylic tetrameter is a metre in poetry. It refers to a line consisting of four dactylic feet. "Tetrameter" simply means four poetic feet. Each foot...
- Dactyl (/ˈdæktɪl/ DAK-til; formally (243) Ida I Dactyl) is a small asteroid moon 1,200 by 1,400 by 1,600 m (3,900 by 4,600 by 5,200 ft), in size) that...
- ages. Ida's moon Dactyl was discovered by mission member Ann Harch in images returned from Galileo. It was named after the Dactyls, creatures which inhabited...
- distich"). He also wrote dactylic hexameters in conversational and epistolary style. Virgil, his contemporary, used dactylic hexameters for both light...