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proceleusmatic [ˌprɒsɪluːsˈmætɪk] Prosody

adj

(Literature / Poetry) denoting or consisting of a metrical foot of four short syllables

(Literature / Poetry) a proceleusmatic metrical foot

[from Late Latin proceleusmaticus, from Greek prokeleusmatikos, from prokeleuein to drive on, from pro-² + keleuein to give orders]

proceleusmatic

a metrical foot of four short syllables. — proceleusmatic, adj.

See also: Verse

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verse			Brand also describes a custom of drinking cider to the master's health, which "seems to resemble a custom of the ancient Danes," and compares the harvest song to "The ancient proceleusmatic song, by which the rowers of gallies were animated" (308). Representing rural leisure: John Clare and the politics of popular ... by Adams, Theresa / Studies in Romanticism All four types are used in all styles of anapestic meter (West 1982: 191), though to different degrees, and each has its own name in classical scholarship: the anapest proper (LLH), the dactyl (HLL), the spondee (HH), and the proceleusmatic (LLLL). The phonology of Classical Greek meter(*) by GOLSTON, CHRIS; RIAD, TOMAS / Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences			Procardia procarp procaryote procaryotic procatalepsis Procatarctic Procatarxis procathedral Procavia Procavia capensis Procaviidae Procedendo procedural procedural agreement procedural control procedure procedure turn procedure word procedures proceed Proceeder proceeding proceedings Proceedings of a society proceeds proceleusmatic Procellaria Procellaria aequinoctialis Procellarian Procellariidae procellariiform seabird Procellariiformes Procellous procephalic Procephalic lobe Proception procercoid Procere Procerebrum Proceres Procerite Procerity Proces verbal procès-verbal process process camera process cheese process colour process engineering Process milling process of foreign attachment			Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians Proceedings of the International Telecommunications Energy Conference Proceedings of the IRE Proceedings of the Jangjeon Mathematical Society Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society Proceedings of the Modern Language Association Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association Proceedings of the Royal Society B Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine Proceedings of the Zoological Society Proceedings, Eastern Great Lakes and Midwest Biblical Societies proceeds proceeds proceeds proceeds proceeds from resale Proceeds from Sales Proceeds of Crime Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 Proceeds of Crime, Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Act Proceeds of Criminal Conduct Law Proceeds sale Proceeds Sales proceleusmatic Procellaria Procellaria aequinoctialis Procellarian Procellarian Procellarid Procellarid Procellaridae Procellaridae Procellariid Procellariid Procellariidae Procellariidae Procellariiform Procellariiform procellariiform seabird Procellariiformes Procellariiformes Procellous procelous procentriole procephalic procephalic Procephalic lobe procephalon Proception Proceptive phase procercoid procercoid procercoid Procere

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