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
But a distinction without a difference could not sustain itself: and both alike disguised their emptiness under this pompous quadrisyllable.
From Miscellaneous Essays by De Quincey, Thomas
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
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
Of the twenty-one quadrisyllable verse-endings in the Ex Ponto, six involve proper nouns: II ii 76 Dalmatiae, ix 42 Alcinoi, the present passage, IV iii 54 Anticyra, viii 62 Oechalia, and ix 80 Danuuium.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear
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