Crossword-Solution: EPITRITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Epitrite | n. | A foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| metrical foot with three long syllables and one short one | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
Hint 2 anagram
ALWLPO
Hint 3 another clue
BATTER ___
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Sentences with EPITRITE (2)
For so they speak and sing, "drink five or three, but not four." For five have the sesquialter proportion, three cups of water being mixed in two of wine; three, the double proportion, two being mixed with one; four, the sesquiterce, three cups of water to one of wine, which is the epitrite proportion for those exercising their minds in the council-chamber or frowning over dialectics, when changes of speeches are expected,--a sober and mild mixture.
These values, however, were arranged in three other different orders, namely, [' - - - | - - ' - | - - - '] and were called the first, second, third, or fourth epitrite, according to the positions of the short step.