Leonine
Word | LEONINE |
Character | 7 |
Hyphenation | le o nine |
Pronunciations | /ˈliːənaɪ̯n/ |
Definitions and meanings of "Leonine"
What do we mean by leonine?
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a lion. adjective
Resembling or suggestive of a lion, as in being powerful or dignified. adjective
Pertaining to or resembling a lion; lion-like: as, leonine fierceness or rapacity.
In prosody, consisting of metrical Latin hexameters or elegiacs (alternate hexameters and pentameters), in which the final word rimes with the word immediately preceding the cesural pause or the middle of the line.
Pertaining to a person named Leo, particularly to several popes of that name; more specifically, of or pertaining to Leo I., the Great (pope from 440 to 461), who is said to have added certain words to the Roman canon of the mass, and whom some have even, without good reason, described as the author of the Roman liturgy.
A coin illegally imported into England by foreign merchants in the reign of Edward I. noun
Plural Leonine verse. noun
Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion adjective
A kind of verse, in which the end of the line rhymes with the middle; -- so named from Leo, or Leoninus, a Benedictine and canon of Paris in the twelfth century, who wrote largely in this measure, though he was not the inventor. The following line is an example adjective
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the lion. adjective
Of or characteristic of or resembling a lion adjective
A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and used in England as a debased form of the sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I.
Lion Like Urban Dictionary
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