a. and sb. [ad. L. anapæstic-us, a. Gr. ἀναπαιστικός: see prec. and -IC.]
A. adj. Composed of anapæsts.
1699. Bentley, Phal., III. (T.). I had started a new observation about the measures of the anapestick verse.
1749. J. Mason, Numbers in Poet. Comp., 58. To make the whole Line purely Anapæstic, thus: ĭn thĕir trīplĕ Dĕgrēes; ănd thĕ Rēgiŏns, tŏ whīch.
1847. Grote, Greece, III. xxix. 66. Tyrtæus … employed the Anapæstic metre.
B. sb. Verses containing anapæstic feet.
1699. Bentley, Phal., III. (T.). Several seeming examples where an anapestick is terminated with a trochee.
1749. J. Mason, Numbers in Poet. Comp., 58. The rapid Flow of Anapæstics, is of all things most contrary to the stately Movement of Iambics.
