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anti-Pindaric

anti-Pindaric adjective: of a measure, where the strophe of one system answers to the strophe of another.

Adjective

anti-Pindaric

  1. Of a measure, where the strophe of one system answers to the strophe of another.
    • Here the image of burning Aetna is used to characterize the anti-Pindaric.2003, John T. Hamilton, Soliciting Darkness - Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition, page 209

Origin of anti-Pindaric

From anti- + Pindaric.

Questions about anti-Pindaric

What does anti-Pindaric mean?
Anti-Pindaric means of a measure, where the strophe of one system answers to the strophe of another.
What part of speech is anti-Pindaric?
Anti-Pindaric is an adjective.

Words near anti-Pindaric in the dictionary

  1. anti-pegasisters
  2. anti-personnel
  3. anti-perspirant
  4. anti-perspirants
  5. anti-Petrarchism
  6. anti-Pindaric
  7. anti-piracy
  8. anti-plasmodial
  9. anti-police
  10. anti-Polish
  11. anti-politics

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