Crossword-Solution: IAMBUSES
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Iambuses | pl. | of Iambus |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| IAMBUSES | anagram | EMBASIUS |
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| Metrical feet (Var.) | 1 answer |
| Metrical feet | 9 answers |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
AEATG
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with IAMBUSES (5)
There are in both three series of iambuses--the dimeter, the cataleptic trimeter, and the acataleptic.[36] This observation applies to the physical and physiological conditions of the phenomenon, since primitive men could not speak without rhythmic modulation of words.
Thus we have learned to scan lines by iambuses, or rather by their accentual imitations, and a perfect line would consist of ten syllables, of which the alternate ones bore a rhythmical stress.
These iambuses may, under certain restrictions, be changed for 'trochees,' and out of these two 'feet,' or their representatives, a metre, certainly very beautiful, has grown up gradually, which attained perhaps its greatest perfection in the verse of Pope.
But the tendency of the Alexandrine consisting merely of the usual iambuses, is to convey slowness--although it conveys this idea feebly, on account of conveying it indirectly.
Asynartete verse (Pros.), a verse of two members, having different rhythms; as when the first consists of iambuses and the second of trochees.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2001–2010).