priapean

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priapean, n. [Cf. L. Priapeius pertaining to Priapus.].

A species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each, having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each. Andrews. [1913 Webster]

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