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Webster 1913 Edition

(spŏn′dē)

Noun.

[L.

spondeus

, Gr. [GREEK] (sc. [GREEK]), fr. [GREEK] a drink offering, libation, fr. [GREEK] to pour out, make a libation: cf. F.

spondée

. So called because at libations slow, solemn melodies were used, chiefly in this meter.]

(Pros.)

A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word lēgēs.

Noun.

[L.] A poetic foot of two long syllables.