amoebean
- a variation of amoebaean.
Example Sentences
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An amoebean contest ensues, in which the rivals closely imitate those of Virgil's seventh eclogue, singing against one another in stanzas of four lines.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas
Buttmann complains of the editors for specifying the interlocutors as Horace and Lydia, which he thinks as incongruous as if in an English amoebean ode Collins were to appear side by side with Phyllis.
From The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace by Conington, John
To this the Poles made answer that the massing of so many soldiers on the Rumanian frontier might reasonably be objected to by the Rumanians—and so the amoebean word-game went on in the subcommission.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph
With me at our breakfasts he was gentle, tolerant, what Sydney Smith called "amoebean," talking and listening alternately.
From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
The third and seventh are also generally accepted as early experiments in the more realistic forms of amoebean pastoral.
From Vergil A Biography by Frank, Tenney
