a. [ad. late L. logaœdicus, ad. Gr. λογαοιδικ-ός, f. λόγ-ος speech, prose + ἀοιδή song (as standing between the rhythm of prose and of poetry).] Epithet of various meters in which dactyls are combined with trochees. Also quasi-sb., a logaœdic verse.
1844. Major, Guide Gr. Trag. (ed. 2), 159. The Glyconeus, which has a logaœdic order.
1855. Linwood, Greek Tragic Metres, 79. Anapæstic Logaœdics are identical in their rhythm with … Logaœdic Dactyls.
1879. J. W. White, trans. Schmidt’s Rhythmic & Metric, § 21. 65. Chorees and logaoedics can be extended to Series of six measures.
1883. Jebb, Œdipus Tyran., Introd. 72. The essential difference between choreic and logaoedic rhythm is that of ictus.
