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Iambuses
(gcide) | Iambus \I*am"bus\, n.; pl. L. Iambi, E. Iambuses. [L.
iambus, Gr. ?; prob. akin to ? to throw, assail (the iambus
being first used in satiric poetry), and to L. jacere to
throw. Cf. Jet a shooting forth.] (Pros.)
A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one,
as in [a^]m[=a]ns, or of an unaccented syllable followed by
an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under
Iambic, n.
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Choriambuses
(gcide) | Choriambus \Cho`ri*am"bus\, n.; pl. L. Choriambi, E.
Choriambuses. [L. choriambus, Gr. ?; ? a choreus + ?
iambus.] (Anc. Pros.)
A foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and
last are long, and the other short (- [crescent] [crescent]
-); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united.
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