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   Cretic
   A cretic (also Cretic, amphimacer and sometimes paeon diagyios) is a metrical foot containing three syllables: long, short, long. In Greek poetry, the cretic was usually a form of paeonic or aeolic verse. However, any line mixing iambs and trochees could employ a cretic foot as a transition. In oth...
   Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretic
   
   
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   Cretic
   Cre'tic (krē'tĭk) noun [ Latin Creticus (sc. pes foot), Greek Kritiko`s (sc. poy`s foot), prop., a Cretan (metrical) foot.] (Gr. & Lat. Pros.) A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between...
   Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/186
   
   
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   Cretic
   • (n.) A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between two long ones (- / -).
   Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/cretic/
   
   
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   cretic
   Greek and Latin metrical foot consisting of long, short, and long syllables.
   Found op http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/terminology.cfm#acatalectic
   
   

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