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met·ri·cal

(mĕt′rĭ-kəl)

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or composed in poetic meter: metrical verse; five metrical units in a line.

2. Relating to measurement.

[Middle English, from Latin metricus, from Greek metrikos, from metron, measure, poetic meter; see mē- in Indo-European roots.]

met′ri·cal·ly adv.

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metrical

(ˈmɛtrɪkəl) or

metric

adj

1. of or relating to measurement

2. (Poetry) of or in poetic metre

ˈmetrically adv

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met•ri•cal

(ˈmɛ trɪ kəl)

also metric

adj.

1. pertaining to or composed in meter.

2. pertaining to measurement.

[1375–1425; late Middle English < Late Latin metric(us) (see metric ²) + -al ¹]

met′ri•cal•ly, adv.

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Adj. 1. metrical - based on the meter as a standard of measurementmetrical - based on the meter as a standard of measurement; "the metric system"; "metrical equivalents"

metric

2. [画像:metrical - the rhythmic arrangement of syllables]metrical - the rhythmic arrangement of syllables

measured, metric

metrics, prosody - the study of poetic meter and the art of versification

rhythmic, rhythmical - recurring with measured regularity; "the rhythmic chiming of church bells"- John Galsworthy; "rhythmical prose"

metrical

adjective

Marked by a regular rhythm:

cadenced, measured, rhythmic, rhythmical.

Translations

مَوْزون

metrický

metrisch

métrique

idõmértékes

í bundnu máli

metrico

metrisch

i bunden form på vers

vezinli

韵律的

metrical

[ˈmetrɪkəl] ADJ (Poetry) → métrico

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metrical

[ˈmɛtrɪk^əl] adj → métrique

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metrical

adj (Poet) → metrisch

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metrical

[ˈmɛtrɪk/əl] adj (also) (Poetry) → metrico/a

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metre²

(American) meter (ˈmiːtə) noun

(in poetry) the regular arrangement of syllables that are stressed or unstressed, long or short. The metre of this passage is typical of Shakespeare. metrum وزن، بَحْر من بُحور الشِّعْر стихотворна стъпка métrica metrum das Versmaß versemål μέτρο metro värsimõõt وزن شعر runomitta mètre מקצב, משקל मीटर stopa, mjera stiha versmérték, ütem sanjak bragarháttur metro 韻律 운율 metras pantmērs pola irama versmaat versemål stopa د شعر وزن metro metrică размер, ритм metrum metrum metar versmått จังหวะในโคลง ฉันท์ กาพย์ กลอน vezin (詩的) 格律 розмір, метр شعر کا وزن nhịp thơ (诗的)韵律

ˈmetrical (ˈme-) adjective

of or in poetry. The translation is not metrical – it is in prose. metries مَوْزون поетичен métrico metrický metrisch på vers έμμετρος métrica meetriline دارای وزن runomitallinen métrique רתמי, מקצבי क्रम से metrički időmértékes bersanjak í bundnu máli metrico 韻文の 운율의 metrinis metrisks, vārsmots pola irama metrisch i bunden form, på vers metryczny وزن لرونكى métrico în versuri метрический; ритмизированный metrický metričen metrički metrisk, i bunden form ซึ่งมีท่วงทํานอง vezinli 格律的,詩體的 метричний مطابق بحر theo thể thơ 韵律的

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The Metrical Romances, including the Arthurian Cycle.

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There must have been a Norman original of the Scottish metrical romance of Rauf Colziar, in which Charlemagne is introduced as the unknown guest of a charcoal-man.*

From thence it has been transferred by the Reverend Charles Henry Hartsborne, M.A., editor of a very curious volume, entitled ``Ancient Metrical Tales, printed chiefly from original sources, 1829.'' Mr Hartshorne gives no other authority for the present fragment, except the article in the Bibliographer, where it is entitled the Kyng and the Hermite.

Yet Horace Walpole wrote a goblin tale which has thrilled through many a bosom; and George Ellis could transfer all the playful fascination of a humour, as delightful as it was uncommon, into his Abridgement of the Ancient Metrical Romances.

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I only know that there are some three principles of rhythm out of which metrical systems are framed, just as in sounds there are four notes out of which all the harmonies are composed; that is an observation which I have made.

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(16) Further assuming that in (43a) the constituents [Ein Baum] and [ist umgefallen] are metrical sisters, the S-NSR assigns primary stress to the constituent lower in the selectional ordering, in this case Baum.

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Particularly welcome here are Beat Kumin's "Masses, Morris and Metrical Psalms: Music in the English Parish," and Magnus Williamson's "The Role of Religious Guilds in the Cultivation of Ritual Polyphony in England: the Case of Louth, 1450-1550." Both give sympathetic and fresh accounts of pre-Reformation parish life, and though they see elements of continuity, they find the Reformation to have been primarily disruptive to ordinary musicians, such as the singers who performed the very numerous endowed votive services, abruptly cut off when these endowments were terminated.

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