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English Dictionary: poem	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for poem
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
poem n a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines Synonym(s): poem, verse form
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Secular \Sec"ular\, a. [OE. secular, seculer. L. saecularis, fr. saeculum a race, generation, age, the times, the world; perhaps akin to E. soul: cf. F. s[82]culier.] 1. Coming or observed once in an age or a century. The secular year was kept but once a century. --Addison. 2. Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe. 3. Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly. New foes arise, Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains. --Milton. 4. (Eccl.) Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest. He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and greater regard for morals, both in the religious orders and the secular clergy. --Prescett. 5. Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical. I speak of folk in secular estate. --Chaucer. {Secular equation} (Astron.), the algebraic or numerical expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a short period have been allowed for. {Secular games} (Rom. Antiq.), games celebrated, at long but irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the like. {Secular music}, any music or songs not adapted to sacred uses. {Secular hymn} [or] {poem}, a hymn or poem* composed for the secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Poem \Po"em\, n. [L. po[89]ma, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to make, to compose, to write, especially in verse: cf. F. po[89]me.] 1. A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton. 2. A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.