Proceleusmatic is an adjective meaning inciting, exhorting, or inspiring; it is also a metrical foot of four short syllables.
Proceléusmatique est un adjectif qui signifie incitatif, exhortant ou inspirant ; c'est aussi un pied métrique de quatre syllabes courtes.
| Back | proceleusmatic /pros-uh-loos-MAT-ik/ |
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| Front | adjective Inciting, exhorting, or inspiring. noun A metrical foot of four short syllables. [From Late Latin proceleusmaticus, from Greek prokeleusmatikos (calling for incitement), from keleuein (to rouse to action).] "The ancient proceleusmatic song by which the rowers of galleys were animated may be supposed to have been of this kind." Samuel Johnson; A Journey to the Western Island of Scotland; 1775. |
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