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Webster 1913 Edition

Anacreontic

A-nacˊre-on′tic

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Adj.
[L.
Anacreonticus
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Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial.
De Quincey.

A-nacˊre-on′tic

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Noun.
A poem after the manner of Anacreon; a sprightly little poem in praise of love and wine.

Webster 1828 Edition

Anacreontic

ANACREON'TIC

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Adj.
Pertaining to Anacreon, a Greek poet, whose odes and epigrams are celebrated for their delicate, easy and graceful air, and for their exact imitation of nature. His verse consists of three feet and a half, usually spondees and iambuses, sometimes anapests; as in this line of Horace.
'Lydia, dic per omnes.'

ANACREON'TIC

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Noun.
A poem composed in the manner of Anacreon.

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