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Archilochian

[ahr-kuh-loh-kee-uhn]

adjective Prosody.

of or pertaining to a form of poetic meter devised by the Greek Archilochus in which various types of meter are combined in the same line or couplet, as a dactylic tetrameter plus a trochaic tripody.

Origin:
1745–55; < Greek archilóchei(os) (equivalent to Archíloch(os) Archilochus + -eios adj. suffix) + -an

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opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.

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Archilochian (ˌɑːkɪˈləʊkɪən)

—*adj*
	denoting or relating to the 7th century bc Greek poet Archilochus or his verse, esp the iambic trimeters or trochaic tetrameters used by him

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