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an•ti•bac•chi•us
(an′ti bə kī′əs),USA pronunciation n., pl. -chi•i (-kī′ī, -kī′ē).USA pronunciation [Pros.]
an•ti•bac•chic
(an′ti bak′ik),USA pronunciation adj.
- Poetrya foot of three syllables that in quantitative meter consists of two long syllables followed by a short one, and that in accentual meter consists of two stressed syllables followed by an unstressed one. Cf. bacchius.
- Greek antibákcheios. See anti-, bacchius
- Late Latin
- 1580–90;
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