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De - Pt| English Dictionary: anapest | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for anapest | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Anapest \An"a*pest\, n. [L. anapaestus, Gr. [?] an anapest, i.e., a dactyl reserved, or, as it were, struck back; fr. [?]; [?] back + [?] to strike.] 1. (Pros.) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented ([cre] [cre] -); the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d[ecr]-[icr]-t[be]s, and in English in-ter-vene[b6], are examples of anapests. 2. A verse composed of such feet. | |
