Crossword-Solution: METRICAL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Metrical | a. | Of or pertaining to the meter; arranged in meter; consisting of verses; as, metrical compositions. |
| Metrical | a. | Of or pertaining to measurement; as, the inch, foot, yard, etc., are metrical terms; esp., of or pertaining to the metric system. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| METRICAL | anagram | LACETRIM |
We have 10 clues for the answer “METRICAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Composed in verse | 1 answer |
| Like Shelley's lines | 1 answer |
| Like classical poetry | 1 answer |
| Like feet in a poem | 1 answer |
| Not free-form | 1 answer |
| Pertaining to measurement | 1 answer |
| metrically | 1 answer |
| of measurement | 1 answer |
| Versified | 2 answers |
| intermittent | 28 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MEACZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with METRICAL (5)
There must have been a Norman original of the Scottish metrical romance of Rauf Colziar, in which Charlemagne is introduced as the unknown guest of a charcoal-man.
One grand merit of blank verse is in the SWEEP of it; another, in its pause-melody, which can be secured only by a skilful recurrence of an unbroken measure; without this, variety of pause ceases to be variety, and results in a metrical chaos; a third is in its lightsomeness of movement, its go, when well-freighted with thought.
She used her handkerchief—it was a really fine one—then she desisted in a panic: “He would only think I was too warm.” She took to reading in the metrical psalms, and then remembered it was sermon-time.
But with Charles literature was an object rather than a mean; he was one who loved bandying words for its own sake; the rigidity of intricate metrical forms stood him in lieu of precise thought; instead of communicating truth, he observed the laws of a game; and when he had no one to challenge at chess or rackets, he made verses in a wager against himself.
Manning’s feelings, and as Ann Veronica’s mind was still largely engaged with fundamentals and found no pleasure in metrical forms, she had not as yet cut its pages.
Quotes with METRICAL (3)
the next time you hear someone in a workshop remarking on how good a particular free-verse line or passage sounds, scan it. The odds are that it will fall into a regular metrical pattern.
If there has been one overriding change in poetic practice, it is that under the influence of free verse the poets have made a primary virtue out of exactitude and economy of meaning: this has replaced metrical skill as the first thing the poet tunes to.
We may now briefly enumerate the elements of style. We have, peculiar to the prose writer, the task of keeping his phrases large, rhythmical, and pleasing to the ear, without ever allowing them to fall into the strictly metrical: peculiar to the versifier, the task of combining and contrasting his double, treble, and quadruple pattern, feet and groups, logic and metre — harmonious in diversity: common to both, the task of artfully combining the prime elements of language into…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1984–2014).