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
Fourthly, if you take account of the said troublesome E, almost universally these deficient measures become filled up to the due complement—become decasyllabic or hendecasyllabic, as the case may be.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various
The Italian hendecasyllabic, the French Alexandrian, the English heroic iambic, are obvious examples.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
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
Later in his career, he published a volume of poems in hendecasyllabic metre, written on various occasions.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel
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