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Proceleusmatic Pros Uh Loos Mat Ik Adjective Inciting Exhorting Inspiring Noun Metrical

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/
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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