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Dactylic

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dac·tyl  (dktl)
n.
1. A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented or of one long syllable followed by two short, as in flattery.
2. A finger, toe, or similar part or structure; a digit.
[Middle English dactil, from Latin dactylus, from Greek daktulos, finger, dactyl.]
dac·tylic (-tlk) adj. & n.
dac·tyli·cal·ly adv.
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Adj.1.dactylic - of or consisting of dactyls; "dactylic meter"
metrics, prosody - the study of poetic meter and the art of versification


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His brief 'Andromeda' is one of the best English poems in the classical dactylic hexameter.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
And I think that I have an indistinct recollection of his mentioning a complex Cretic rhythm; also a dactylic or heroic, and he arranged them in some manner which I do not quite understand, making the rhythms equal in the rise and fall of the foot, long and short alternating; and, unless I am mistaken, he spoke of an iambic as well as of a trochaic rhythm, and assigned to them short and long quantities.
The Republic by Plato View in context
At any rate the double coincidence of a dactylic line, and an ending [Greek], seems conclusive as to the familiarity of the writer of the "Odyssey" with the Iliadic line.
The Odyssey by Homer View in context
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