Dactylic Definition

daktilik
adjective
Of or made up of dactyls.
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noun
A dactylic line of poetry.
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Other Word Forms of Dactylic

Noun

Singular:
dactylic
Plural:
dactylics

Dactylic Sentence Examples

  • The metre used by Theocritus in the Bucolics and Mimes, as well as in the Epics, is the dactylic hexameter.

  • Though written in a metre deemed foreign to English ears, the poem immediately attained a wide popularity, which it has never lost, and secured to the dactylic hexameter a recognized place among English metres.

  • Should we revive dactylic hexameter for What on Earth features?

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Words Starting With

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