a Greek and Latin metrical foot consisting of long, short, and long syllables / ' ~ ' / (cf. the English word 'forty-five'). An example is Alfred lord Tennyson's 'The Oak.' See under foot below.
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• (n.) A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in cast/tas.
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A three-syllable foot consisting of a heavy, light, and heavy stress. Poetry written in amphimacers
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A greek and latin metrical foot consisting of long, short, and long syllables / ' ~ ' / (cf. The eng
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Am·phim'a·cer noun [ Latin
amphimacru... , Greek ...; ... on both sides + ... long.]
(Anc. Pros.) A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in
cāst...tās .
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a trisyllabic foot, the arrangement of the syllables of which is long, short, long in quantitative meter, or stressed, unstressed, stressed in accentual meter, as anodyne, an accentual amphimacer.
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