a. Obs. rare. Also 7 spondeiak. [ad. L. spondīac-us (less correctly spondaic-us), ad. Gr. σπονδειακός.) = SPONDAIC a.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie (Arb.), 129. Which words serue well to make the verse all spondiacke or iambicke.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Morals, 1254. In song they seemed not … proper and fit for the Spondeiak kinde.
