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adj. of or consisting of dactyls.

adj. of a dactyl.

n. a dactylic verse.

adj. Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls.

n. A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls.

n. Dactylic meters.

In prosody, constituting or equivalent to a dactyl; pertaining to or characteristic of a dactyl or dactyls; consisting of dactyls: as, a dactylic foot; a dactylic spondee; dactylic rhythm or meter; dactylic verses.

n. A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls.

n. plural Meters which consist of a repetition of dactyls or of equivalent feet.

adj. of or consisting of dactyls

"While its authorship is often contested, the fact remains that epic poems like The Iliad, written in dactylic hexameters, not only contributed to the evolution of the poetry genre but also to the proliferation of the written word."

dactylic spondee    dactylic foot    dactylic flute    dactylic class    dactylically   

catalectic    unrhymed    trochaic    spondaic    alliterative