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Word Meanings - HYPERMETER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse. 2. Hence, anything exceeding the ordinary standard. When a man rises beyond six foot, he is an hypermeter. Addison.

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  • EXCEEDING
    More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. "The exceeding riches of his grace." Eph. ii. 7. -- Ex*ceed"ing*ness, n. Sir P. Sidney.
  • SYLLABLE
    1. An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked
  • VERSET
    A verse. Milton.
  • VERSEMAN
    See PRIOR
  • HYPERCATALECTIC
    Having a syllable or two beyond measure; as, a hypercatalectic verse.
  • STANDARD
    The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • ORDINARY
    1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. "The ordinary forms of law." Addison. 2. Common; customary; usual. Shak. Method is not less reguisite in ordinary conversation that in writing. Addison. 3. Of common rank, quality,
  • BEYOND
    1. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher. 2. At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope. 3. Past, out of the reach or
  • ANYTHINGARIAN
    One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
  • HYPERMETER
    A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse. 2. Hence, anything exceeding the ordinary standard. When a man rises beyond six foot, he is an hypermeter. Addison.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • EXCEEDABLE
    Capable of exceeding or surpassing. Sherwood.
  • HENCE
    ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
  • VERSEMONGER
    A writer of verses; especially, a writer of commonplace poetry; a poetaster; a rhymer; -- used humorously or in contempt.
  • STANDARD-WING
    A curious paradise bird which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.
  • VERSED
    Acquainted or familiar, as the result of experience, study, practice, etc.; skilled; practiced. Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. Milton. Opinions . . . derived from studying the Scriptures, wherein he was versed beyond any person of
  • ORDINARYSHIP
    The state of being an ordinary. Fuller.
  • STANDARDIZE
    To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.
  • STANDARD-BRED
    Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders.
  • CONTROVERSER
    A disputant.
  • REVERSED
    Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
  • AVERSENESS
    The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
  • HEREHENCE
    From hence.
  • RENVERSEMENT
    A reversing.
  • WHENCEFORTH
    From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
  • TRAVERSE
    Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches. Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work. Sir H. Wotton. The ridges of the fallow field traverse.
  • TRISYLLABLE
    A word consisting of three syllables only; as, a-ven-ger.
  • DISSYLLABLE
    A word of two syllables; as, pa-per.
  • INTERTRANSVERSE
    Between the transverse processes of the vertebræ.
  • THENCEFROM
    From that place.
  • SUBORDINARY
    One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary. Note: Different writers name different bearings as subordinaries, but the bar, bend, sinister, pile, inescutcheon bordure, gyron, and quarter, are always
  • QUINQUESYLLABLE
    A word of five syllables.
  • DODECASYLLABLE
    A word consisting of twelve syllables.

 

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