Crossword-Solution: ALCAIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Alcaic | a. | Pertaining to Alcaeus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c. |
| Alcaic | n. | A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ALCAIC | anagram | CICALA |
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| Pertaining to meter invented by Greek lyric poet. | 1 answer |
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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
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Sentences with ALCAIC (5)
Somewhat as in the Greek Alcaic, where the penultimate line seems to lift and suspend the Wave that falls over in the last.
They published whole libraries, controversy, casuistry, history, treatises on optics, Alcaic odes, editions of the fathers, madrigals, catechisms, and lampoons.
Odes and Epodes, thus acquired, were a score of days and weeks; alcaic and sapphic verses like a bead-roll for counting off the time that intervened before the holidays.
Maurice." The two last lines of the latter form of the stanza are indeed evidently copied from the Alcaic, with the simple omission of the last syllable of the last line of the original.
And as it is not poets who follow laws, but precede them--as trochee and iambic, alcaic and hexameter, are the inventions of grammarians following on the trail of genius--so it behoves the Aristotle who would discover the laws of the rhythm of prose to study the masters of the art, masters by instinct and a faultless ear and the grace of God, and endeavour by patient induction to wrest from their sentences the secrets of their harmonies.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1948).