hendecasyllabic
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of hendecasyllabic
First recorded in 1720–30; hendecasyllable + -ic
Example Sentences
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Ten Brink calls attention to the possibility of the influence upon Chaucer's couplet of the Italian hendecasyllabic verse.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
The three hundred and fifty-eight dedicatory epigrams include sixteen in hexameter and iambic, and one in hendecasyllabic; and among the seven hundred and fifty sepulchral epigrams are forty-two in hexameter, iambic, and other mixed metres.
From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Mackail, J. W. (John William)
The metres most often employed are elegiac, hendecasyllabic, and the scazon.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
In the course of his recitation he had produced a small hendecasyllabic poem in praise of Pliny's own verses.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
The iambic blank verse of Italy was, however, mainly hendecasyllabic, not decasyllabic, and under French influences the habit of rhyme soon returned.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
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