anapaestic means british standard spelling of anapestic. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 83 out of 100.
Etymology
From Latin anapaesticus. By surface analysis, anapaest + -ic.
adj
- British standard spelling of anapestic.“The public has referred the question to Time: the procedure of this great king I venture to describe, from precedents, by an adaptation of some smart anapaestic tetrameters--your anapaest is the foot for satire to halt on, both in Greek and English--which I read about twenty years ago, and with the point of which I was much tickled.”
noun
- British standard spelling of anapestic.