Meaning of "dochmiac" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF DOCHMIAC

dochmiac  [ˈdɒkmɪæk]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DOCHMIAC

Dochmiac is an adjective.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DOCHMIAC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dochmiac

Dochmiac is a poetic meter that is characteristically used in Greek tragedy, expressing extreme agitation or distress. There are examples in satyric drama and Aristophanes, but these are often paratragic in tone and impassioned. The base metrical scheme is: u — — u —, although any of the long syllables may be resolved and either of the two shorts may be replaced by a long.

Definition of dochmiac in the English dictionary

The definition of dochmiac in the dictionary is resembling a dochmius in form or structure.

TRANSLATION OF DOCHMIAC

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOCHMIAC»

Discover the use of dochmiac in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dochmiac and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex

1316/1324 ---- ---- spondee 1317–20/1325–28 iambic trimeters 1329–1348 = 1349–1368 1329/1349 ⌣---- ---- ⌣---- ⌣ ⌣⌣ ------- ---- ⌣---- dochmiac dimeter 1330/1350 ⌣⌣⌣⌣⌣⌣---- ⌣ --- ⌣⌣ ⌣⌣⌣ ⌣⌣ ------- dochmiac dimeter 1332/1352 ...

Sophocles, R. D. Dawe, 2006

greek lyric metre

Pind. P. vi. Monostrophic. A Paeonic : B Aeolian. Form : A-B-A-B-A-B-A. (A) Dochmiac 'Akovo-ot'" Tj yap eXiKwiriScx; 'A<£poStTa? dpovpav fj XapLrwv (B) Pherecratic Tripody with anacrusis (paeon) (A) Dochmiac Link av<nroXi£op,ev ...

A grammar of the Greek language, for the use of schools and ...

Dochmiac dimeter. ' 2. Antispastic and dochmiac monometers. 3. Dactylic dimeter liypercat. and dochmiac monom. 4. Dactylic and dochmiac monometers. 5. Iambic, penthem., dactylic, and dochmiac monom. 6. Orotic dimeter. 7. Dochmiac  ...

Charles Anthon, John Richardson Major, 1840

An English Commentary on the Rhesus, Medea, Hippolytus, ...

1261-1270. Strophe. Verse 1251, _ 1254, 1255, 1257, ~ 1258, *_ w _, L _ _, Dochmins and Crctic. 1252, _lwww_,^wwwww_, Dochmiac Dimeter. 1253, _^ w_w_,— _i_w_, Dochmiac Dimeter. w _, w -L _ w _, Dochmiac Dimeter. ^ - _, w 1, w _, ...

Charles Anthon, 1877

Greek Lyric Metre

Common dochmiac, for example, can be so arranged as to suggest trochaic : Aesch. A gam. 202—3 Dochmiac Dochmiac wvoai 8' d'n'h eruuévoe pokoiio'av ( Trochaic) Dochmiac Dochmiac xaxéaxokot, 1/150'TL8'6'9,'§6013~B&8£.

George Thomson, 2013

The Ajax

dXXaSdv %x\&v av-rvovs aypds I : antispast (properly » — — ) : dochmiac. Vv. 882, 3. f) tXs o\\vinrXdb\iiv || 6ewv ij pvTuv\ : dactylic dimeter hypercatal. : dochmiac. Vv. 884, 5. fioo-TropX] &v iroTcLfi\tijv\\ rov wix\o8vn\ov\[: dactylic dimeter ...

Sophocles, Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, 1871

Elements of the Doctrine of Metres

For that Bacehius is not repugnant to the dochmiac numbers, because the catalexis is dochmiac. For the fact is, that for the most part such numbers are associated with dochmiac, as appear to be dochmiac parts : which is done in the  ...

Gottfried Hermann, 1830

Hermann's elements of the doctrine of metres,: abridged and ...

For the fact is, that for the most part such numbers are associated with dochmiac, as appear to be dochmiac parts : which is done in the same manner in Glyconean numbers. § 259- Hence we may explain the manner in which the Cretic is used ...

Gottfried Hermann, 1830

A System of Greek Prosody and Metre: For the Use of Schools ...

Dochmiac dimeter. 4. Cretic dimeter. 5. Dochmiac monometer. 6. Antispastic and dochmiac. 7. Cretic trimeter. 8. Dochmiac monometer. 9. Extra metrum. 10. Dochmiac dimeter. 11. Antispastic tetrameter catalectic. 12. Antispastic and dochmiac.

Charles Anthon, 1839

A System of Greek Prosody and Metre, for the Use of Schools ...

<ppage ra | dva-rrXavG) \ Trapdevu. 1. Dochmiac dimeter. 2. Cretic monometer. 3 . Dochmiac dimeter. 4. Cretic dimeter. 5. Dochmiac monometer. 6. Antispastic and dochmiac. 7. Cretic trimeter. 8. Dochmiac monometer. 9. Extra metrum. 10.

Charles Anthon, 1842

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DOCHMIAC»

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A Journal of Poetry and Place

The middle section, an academic paper on the Greek scheme the “dochmiac,” is less for the poetry aesthetes like me and more food for thought ... «The American Conservative, May 14»