(Pros.) A poetical foot of three sylables, one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, E. merciful; so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. (Written also dactyle)
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"Dactyl" Quotes from Famous Books ![]() ![]() — Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo |
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