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Octa-, Octo-  pref.  A combining form meaning eight; as in octodecimal, octolocular.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Octa-" Quotes from Famous Books



... and holds a high place of esteem. Great variety of form is also here; excellent blank verse with a movement at once easy and restrained, an equable, strong flow, bearing lofty meditations; sonnets after the manner of the masters; octo-syllabics of sententious felicity; various apt lyrical stanzas. Culture alone, of which there is abundant evidence, could not have produced these poems. The poetic endowment, thoroughly disciplined, was necessary. Mr. Leslie Pinckney Hill is a poet. His powers ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 • Various

... differing characters of the metres of the 'Angel' and 'Eros.' The meats and wines of the two are, in very great part, almost identical in character; but, in one case, they are served on the deal table of the octo-syllabic quatrain, and, in the other, they are spread on the fine, irregular rock of ...
— Figures of Several Centuries • Arthur Symons



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