Alcaic

American  

[al-kay-ik] / ælˈkeɪ ɪk /

adjective

1. pertaining to Alcaeus or to certain meters or a form of strophe or stanza used by, or named after, him.

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noun

1. Alcaics, Alcaic verses or strophes.

Alcaic British  

/ ælˈkeɪɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to a metre used by the 7th-century _bc Greek lyric poet Alcaeus, consisting of a strophe of four lines each with four feet

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noun

1. (usually plural) verse written in the Alcaic form

Etymology

Origin of Alcaic

1620–30; < Late Latin Alcaicus < Greek Alkaïkós, equivalent to Alka ( îos ) Alcaeus + -ikos -ic

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Example Sentences

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Alcaic

The Sapphic and the Alcaic involve more difficult questions.

From The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace by John Conington

As already stated, the Alcaic measure was of all the Greek verse-forms Hölderlin's favorite, and the one most frequently and successfully employed by him.

From Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry by Wilhelm Alfred Braun

He went on to speak of his “Experiments in Quantity,” and in particular of the Alcaic Ode to Milton, beginning: O mighty-mouth’d inventor of harmonies.

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various

The model of this variety is not to be found in any of the Alcaic or Tyrtæan remains.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers

The external correspondence between this and the Alcaic is considerable; but the brevity of the English measure struck me at once as a fatal obstacle, and I did not try to encounter it.

From The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace by John Conington

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