hendecasyllabic
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of hendecasyllabic
First recorded in 1720–30; hendecasyllable + -ic
Example Sentences
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The metres most often employed are elegiac, hendecasyllabic, and the scazon.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
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)
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
“Paeninsularum, Sirmio, insularumque,” and the phalecian hendecasyllabic, a slight modification of the Sapphic line, which is his favourite metre for the expression of his more joyful moods, and of his lighter satiric vein.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
In the hendecasyllabic he is smoother and more polished.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
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