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Cretic   Listen
noun
Cretic  n.  (Gr. & Lat. Pros.) A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between two long ones.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cretic" Quotes from Famous Books



... into our counsels; and he will tell us what rhythms are expressive of meanness, or insolence, or fury, or other unworthiness, and what are to be reserved for the expression of opposite feelings. And I think that I have an indistinct recollection of his mentioning a complex Cretic rhythm; also a dactylic or heroic, and he arranged them in some manner which I do not quite understand, making the rhythms equal in the rise and fall of the foot, long and short alternating; and, unless ...
— The Republic • Plato



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