Look up: antispast


  1. Antispast
    Classical meter consisting of four syllables per foot: one short, two long, one short.
    Found op http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of_poetic_terms.htm

  2. Antispast
    An'ti·spast noun [ Latin antispastus , Greek ..., from ... to draw the contrary way; ... against + ... to draw.] (Pros.) A foot of four syllables, the first and fourth short, and the second and third long .
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/98

  3. Antispast
    • (n.) A foot of four syllables, the first and fourth short, and the second and third long (#).
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/antispast/

  4. antispast
    Greek and Latin metrical foot consisting of short, long, long, and short syllables (i.e., an iambus and a trochee) / ~ ' ' ~ / . A possible English example is 'unblackguarded.'
    Found op http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/terminology.cfm#acatalectic

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