Definition of "anapaestic" []

• Alternative spelling of anapestic. (adjective)
• Alternative spelling of anapestic. (noun)

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• "His natural gait on shipboard was a kind of anapaestic dance -- two short steps and a long -- and though the crowd interrupted its cadence and coerced him to a quick bobbing motion, as of a bottle in a choppy sea, it hardly affected his pace."
• "Its poignancy owes a lot, too, to the way the anapaestic rhythms take over in each stanza after the more regular rhythm of the opening line, seeming to exult in the free, swooping flight denied the bird."
• "Cleon, also, already was among his assailants, making use of the feeling against him as a step to the leadership of the people, as appears in the anapaestic verses of Hermippus."