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Spondaical, Spondaic adj.

Of or pertaining to a spondee; consisting of spondees.

Containing spondees in excess; marked by spondees; as, a spondaic hexameter, i. e., one which has a spondee instead of a dactyl in the fifth foot.

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Etymology of 'Spondaical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spondaical" Quotes from Famous Books

... merely by the senses. Pythagoras being in company with some wild young fellows, and perceiving that, heated with the feast, they comploted to go violate an honest house, commanded the singing wench to alter her wanton airs; and by a solemn, grave, and spondaic music, gently enchanted and laid ...

— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne

... Cicero (Tusc. iii. 19, 45) in reference to Ennius, "the glorious poet is despised by our reciters of Euphorion." "I have safely arrived," he writes to Atticus (vii. 2 init.), "as a most favourable north wind blew for us across from Epirus. This spondaic line you may, if you choose, sell to one of the new-fashioned poets as your own" (-ita belle nobis flavit ab Epiro lenissumus Onchesmites. Hunc- —spondeiazonta— -si cui voles ...

— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

... of the introductory lines! And how massily is the whole locked up into the peace of heaven, as the aerial arch of a viaduct is locked up into tranquil stability by its key-stone, through the deep spondaic close, ...

— The Notebook of an English Opium-Eater • Thomas de Quincey