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alexandrine
alexandrine , in prosody, a line of 12 syllables (or 13 if the last syllable is unstressed). Its name probably derives from the fact that some poems of the 12th and 13th cent. about Alexander the Great were written in this meter. In French, rhyming couplets of two alexandrines of equal length, usual... Read more
free verse
free verse term loosely used for rhymed or unrhymed verse made free of conventional and traditional limitations and restrictions in regard to metrical structure. Cadence, especially that of common speech, is often substituted for regular metrical pattern. Free verse is a literal translation of th... Read more
hexameter
hexameter [Gr.,=measure of six], in prosody, a line to be scanned in six feet (see versification ). The most celebrated hexameter measure is dactylic, which was the meter for most Greek and Latin poetry. In dactylic hexameter each foot may have a long syllable followed by two shorts, except the la... Read more
Christian liturgy
Christian liturgy [Gr. leitourgia = public duty or worship] form of public worship, particularly the form of rite or services prescribed by the various Christian churches. In the Western Church the principal service centered upon the Eucharistic sacrifice, but with the Protestant Reformation, the... Read more
Jean Racine
Jean Racine , 1639-99, French dramatist. Racine is the prime exemplar of French classicism . The nobility of his Alexandrine verse, the simplicity of his diction, the psychological realism of his characters, and the skill of his dramatic construction contribute to the continued popularity of his pl... Read more
rat
rat name applied to various stout-bodied rodents , usually having a pointed muzzle, long slender tail, and dexterous forepaws. It refers particularly to the two species of house rat, Rattus norvegicus, the brown, or Norway, rat and R. rattus, the black, roof, or Alexandrine, rat. Both species ... Read more
versification
versification principles of metrical practice in poetry. In different literatures poetic form is achieved in various ways; usually, however, a definite and predictable pattern is evident in the language. In ancient Greek poetry, the pattern was in the quantity of the syllables, i.e., the duration o... Read more

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alexandrine
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition alexandrine , in prosody, a line of 12 syllables...iambic hexameter line is often called an alexandrine. The most notable example is found...contains eight iambic pentameters and an alexandrine rhyming with the last pentameter. Pope...
Pompadour, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson (1721–1764)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...xE9; r è se Geoffrin, Claudine-Alexandrine Gu é rin de Tencin, and Marie Vichy...1742, who died suddenly, and a daughter, Alexandrine, born in 1744. Alexandrine's death in 1754 from acute appendicitis and...
versification
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...and type of feet determine the name of the meter, e.g., iambic pentameter , five iambic feet; iambic hexameter (see alexandrine ), six iambic feet; and dactylic hexameter, six dactylic feet. A patterned arrangement of lines into a group is called...
oratory
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Athens and soon became important in all areas of life. It was taught by the Sophists. The Ten Attic Orators (listed by Alexandrine critics) were Antiphon, Andocides, Lysias, Isocrates, Isaeus, Aeschines, Demosthenes, Lycurgus, Hyperides, and...
Christian liturgy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...as Antiochene or Syrian (with modern liturgies in Greek, Old Slavonic, Romanian, Armenian, Arabic, and Syriac) and Alexandrine or Egyptian (with liturgies in Coptic and Ethiopic). The liturgies that arose in the West are classified as either Gallican...
heroic verse
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature heroic verse, that used in epic poetry: in Greek and Latin poetry, the hexameter; in English, the iambic of five feet or ten syllables; in French, the alexandrine of 12 syllables.
Fifine at the Fair
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Fifine at the Fair, a poem in alexandrine couplets by R. Browning , published 1872. The speaker is Don Juan, who is strolling with his wife Elvire near Pornic in Britanny...
David-Néel, Alexandra
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...xE9;el claimed to have been plagued by wanderlust from her earliest memories. She was born Louise Eugénie Alexandrine Marie David in Saint-Mandé, a suburb of Paris, France, on October 24, 1868. Her father was a French journalist...
St. Leo I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Dioscurus, Cyril's successor, and Flavian, Nestorius's successor at Constantinople, the controversy broke out anew. The Alexandrine party contended that Flavian's insistence upon the integrity of the two natures in Christ (diophysitism) destroyed the...
free verse
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...France among poets, such as Arthur Rimbaud and Jules Laforgue , who sought to free poetry from the metrical regularity of the alexandrine . The term has also been applied by modern literary critics to the King James translation of the Bible, particularly the...

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alexandrine
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology alexandrine pert. to verse of twelve syllables. XVI. — F. alexandrin , f. Alexandre , title of a famous OF. romance (XII–XIII), concerning Alexander the Great, in which the metre is used; see -INE1 .
Bujold, Geneviève
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...with Family (Barron); An Ambush of Ghosts (Lewis) (as Irene Betts) 1994 Mon Ami Max (My Friend Max ) (as Marie-Alexandrine Brabant) 1995 The Adventures of Pinocchio (Barron) (as Leona) 1997 The House of Yes (Mark Waters) (as Mrs. Pascal...
Nordenskiöld, (Nils) Adolf Erik
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...the Early History of Charts and Sailing Directions (1897). The Facsimile-atlas is a survey of map making, from the Alexandrine cartographer Ptolemy to the beginnings of scientific surveying and mapping in the seventeenth century. Periplus , its companion...
Bonaparte, Lucien Jules Laurent
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...zoology . Bonaparte was the son of Napoleon ’ s younger brother, Lucien (1775 – 1840). His mother was Alexandrine de Bleschamp. In 1822 Bonaparte married his cousin Z é na ï de Charlotte Julie, the daughter of the king...
Duhem, Pierre-Maurice-Marie
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...father, Pierre-Joseph, was a commercial traveler from Roubaix in the industrialized north of France. His mother, born Alexandrine Fabre, was of a bourgeois family originally from Cabrespine, a town in Languedoc, near Carcassonne. They settled in Paris...
Antiochene theology
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...Antiochene theology. A modern designation for a style of theology associated with the Church at Antioch , contrasted with *Alexandrine theology. In scriptural exegesis it placed more emphasis on the literal and historical sense of the biblical text. In its...

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poetry
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...versification, metrical composition, rhymes, balladry; archaic poesy. See also table. Poetic Forms, Meters, and Feet alexandrine anapest aubade ballad ballade blank verse choriamb choriambic dactyl dactylic decasyllable dimeter dirge disyllable dithyramb...

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Newmarket: Alexandrine still well weighted; View from the training centres.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 6/26/2000; ; 592 words ; ALEXANDRINE can further exploit a favourable mark...their stride in the last fortnight, and Alexandrine added to the coffers on her handicap...The runner-up has scored since and Alexandrine should have few problems with the step...
THE MAKING OF MARRIAGE IN THIRTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND: VERB TENSE, POPULAR LEGALISM, AND THE ALEXANDRINE LAW OF MARRIAGE
Magazine article from: Texas Journal of Women and the Law; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...demonstrate a lack of understanding of the subtleties of the Alexandrine rules and their focus on the importance of verb tense. Some...Alexander III and explaining how the promulgation of the Alexandrine rules resulted in the growth of clandestine marriage. Following...
Japan buys into Alexandrine fields.(Sojitz Corporation)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: MEED Middle East Economic Digest; 9/8/2006; 700+ words ; Japan's Sojitz Corporation announced in late August that it had acquired from the US' IPR Group of Companies a 35 per cent stake in two oil fields, 80 kilometres west of Alexandria. The deal was valued at $14.5 million. Sojitz will invest $16 million over three years and plans to raise production
Death of Emile Zola: September 20th, 1902. (Months Past).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: History Today; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...circumstances. Emile Zola and his wife Alexandrine returned to their house in the rue de...awake, feeling sick, but Zola stopped Alexandrine rousing the servants for what he thought...was on the floor, dead or nearly so. Alexandrine was lying on her bed, unconscious...
Star Tribune / AIA home of the month; streamlined DESIGN within reach; European couple brings their love for functional modernism to Minnetonka.(HOMES)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 6/7/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...UNDERWOOD; STAFF WRITER Neither Stuart nor Alexandrine Harris lived in a contemporary style...Stuart is from the United Kingdom and Alexandrine is from France) they were steeped in modern design. Alexandrine lived in an old house with the modern...
Betting Bureau: Flag Fen can fly home; He ran into a good filly last time and is back to something like his best form.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 6/26/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...bookie, at what price would you lay Alexandrine? Sir Mark Prescott's charge doesn...Yet the world and his wife expect Alexandrine to win this afternoon, because this...the face of such strong credentials, Alexandrine has been installed 4-7 favourite in...
We opened a treasure trove of memories - and found a new family 12,000 miles away! REUNION: Discovery of 100-year-old letters in a trunk leads to amazing meeting.(News)
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail (England); 8/16/2006; 700+ words ; ...had belonged to her great-grandmother, Alexandrine Benson. "It contained the most fascinating...in our family," said Michael. Fred is Alexandrine's grandson. His father - Alexandrine's son Charles - emigrated to Australia...
The storied past of the Van Ackerens, former Elginites
Newspaper article from: Courier News (Elgin, IL); 7/27/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...newspaper. One of the exceptions was Alexandrine Van Ackeren and her family, who lived...ago before resurfacing 60 years ago. Alexandrine Rosenkranz, born in Austria, and Dr...in 1897. Although not a physician, Alexandrine in 1899 advertised that she cured...
Critique du vers.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...century commentary on the decay of the alexandrine, Jean-Michel Gouvard sets out to...generative description of the iambic alexandrine in Spanish, a language which, unlike...Verluyten's generative work on the French alexandrine, and it is clear from the opening paragraph...
Metre et rythmes du vers classique: Corneille et Racine.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...previous formal studies of the classical alexandrine have been limited to corpora of no more...theories and analytical approaches to the alexandrine (Chapter 1), Chapters 4-6 deal...elsewhere give many fresh insights into the alexandrine's essential rhythmic characteristics...