quadrisyllable
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Origin of quadrisyllable
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The quadrisyllable has Joycean overtones: macneilehrer -- a run-on conjuring up two-headed television journalism, emanating from Washington and New York, dispassionate, in-depth and, in the words of one contributor, "gloriously boring."
From Time Magazine Archive
A dactyl usually stands in the fourth place, and the fifth and sixth feet are generally made up of a quadrisyllable; as,— armātumque aurō circumspicit Ōrīōna. cāra deum subolēs, magnum Jovis incrēmentum.
From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
But Alexandrides lengthens the word into a quadrisyllable, and calls it ὠάριον.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Note the quadrisyllable ending, and compare EP II ix 41-42 'quis non Antiphaten Laestrygona deuouet? aut quis / munifici mores improbet Alcinoi?'.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear
In the second half verse, I do not remember a single instance of deviation from this, though sometimes, but very seldom, the first half verse ends with another quadrisyllable foot.
From Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems by Milman, Henry Hart
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