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Webster 1913 Edition
Leonine
Le′o-nine
(lē′ō̍-nīn)
, Adj.
Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion;
– as, a
leonine
look; leonine
rapacity. Le′o-nine-ly
, adv.
Leonine verse
, a kind of verse, in which the end of the line rhymes with the middle; – so named from
Leo
, or Leoninus
, a Benedictine and canon of Paris in the twelfth century, who wrote largely in this measure, though he was not the inventor. The following line is an example:Gloria factorum temere conceditur horum.
Webster 1828 Edition
Leonine
LE'ONINE
,Adj.
Leonine verses, so named from Leo, the inventor, are those, the end of which rhymes with the middle; as,
Gloria factorum temere conceditur horum.