1) At a price 2) Dibrach
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1) Ceremonial dance 2) Like a costly victory 3) Like some victories 4) Ritual dance 5) Ritual dancing
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- a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables
- an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare
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A pyrrhic (πυρρίχιος pyrrichios, from πυρρίχη pyrrichē) is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. It consists of two unaccented, short syllables. It is also known as a dibrach. ==Poetic use in English== Tennyson used pyrrhics and spondees quite frequently, for example, in In Memoriam: When the blood creeps and the nerves prick. `....
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of, like or pertaining to the dance or to the foot
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a metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables.
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• (a.) Of or pertaining to a pyrrhic, or to pyrrhics; containing pyrrhic; as, a pyrrhic verse. • (n.) An ancient Greek martial dance, to the accompaniment of the flute, its time being very quick. • (a.) Of or pertaining to an ancient Greek martial dance. • (n.) A foot consisting of two short syllables.Pyrrhic: words in the defin...
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In classical Greek or Latin poetry, this foot consists of two unaccented syllables--the opposite of
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A metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables.
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Pyr'rhic adjective [ Latin
pyrrhichius , Greek ... belonging to the ... (sc. ...) a kind of war dance.]
1. Of or pertaining to an ancient Greek martial dance. ' ye have the
pyrrhic dance as yet.'
Byron. 2. (Pros.) Of or pertaining to a pyrrhic, or to pyrrhic...
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Pyr'rhic noun 1. [ Greek ...: confer French pyrrhique , fem.] An ancient Greek martial dance, to the accompaniment of the flute, its time being very quick. 2. [ Latin pyrrhichius (sc. pes ), Greek ... (sc. ...): confer French pyrrhique , masc.] (Pros.)
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[
adj] - of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece 2. [adj] - of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables 3. [adj] - of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans) 4. [n] - a metrical unit with unstressed-unst...
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noun a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables
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adjective of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans); `a Pyrrhic victory`
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relating to a victory that is offset by staggering losses
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