hendecasyllabic

[hen-dek-uh-si-lab-ik, hen-dek-]

adjective

having 11 syllables.

noun

a hendecasyllable.

Origin of hendecasyllabic

First recorded in 1720–30; hendecasyllable + -ic

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Historical Examples of hendecasyllabic

Hendecasyllabic verse: There are two classes of hendecasyllables.
Legends, Tales and Poems
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
It is written in hendecasyllabic ottava rima, and is divided into ten cantos containing in all 1102 stanzas.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1
Various
In both Cintio's pieces the metre is blank verse (hendecasyllabic), diversified in the case of the Egle with a rimed chorus.
Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama
Walter W. Greg
But the heroic (hendecasyllabic) quatrain was regarded in general as too lofty, stately, cool, for elegy.
An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751) and The Eton College Manuscript
Thomas Gray
Mr Coleridge's felicity, both in the Elegiac metre and a slight variation of the Hendecasyllabic, is universally acknowledged.
Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846
Various