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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Anapest \An"a*pest\, n. [L. anapaestus Gr ? an anapest, i.e., a dactyl reserved, or as it were struck back fr ?; ? back + ? to strike.] 1. (Pros.) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented ([crescent] [crescent] -); the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d[e^]-[i^]-t[=a]s, and in English in-ter-vene", are examples of anapests. 2. A verse composed of such feet. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: anapest n : a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables [syn: {anapaest}]
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