Pros. [L., a. Gr. ἀντιβάκχειος, f. ἀντί opposite to + βακχεῖος: see BACCHIUS.] A reversed bacchius, a trisyllabic metrical foot of two long and one short syllable.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie (Arb.) 134. For your foote antibacchius, of two long and a short ye haue these wordes [fōrsākĕn] [īmpūgnĕd].
