Metrical

Word METRICAL
Character 8
Hyphenation met ric al
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Metrical"

What do we mean by metrical?

Of, relating to, or composed in poetic meter. adjective

Relating to measurement. adjective

Pertaining to or characterized by poetical measure or rhythm; written in verse; metric: as, metrical terms; the metrical psalms.

Pertaining to measurement, or the use of weights and measures; employed in or determined by measuring: as, a metrical unit, of length or quantity; the metrical systems of the ancients.

Of or pertaining to the meter; arranged in meter; consisting of verses. adjective

Of or pertaining to measurement; , are metrical terms; esp., of or pertaining to the metric system. adjective

Relating to poetic meter adjective

Having a regular rhythm adjective

Of or pertaining to measurement adjective

Based on the meter as a standard of measurement adjective

The rhythmic arrangement of syllables adjective

Relating to poetic meter

Having a regular rhythm

Of or pertaining to measurement

Synonyms and Antonyms for Metrical

The word "metrical" in example sentences

Apart from the many faults of interpretation all of the metrical translations of the Nibelungenlied here enumerated are defective in one all-important respect: they do not reproduce the poem in its _metrical form_. ❋ George Henry Needler (1914)

To all of them the term metrical prayer rather than hymn should be applied. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

ML says: how is this not poetry? is it not “literature in metrical form”? ❋ Unknown (2010)

One notebook page holds a doodled-in metrical pattern of dactyls, sketched at a diagonal, as if Bishop is quickly taking musical notation or tapping out a whole stanza of scansion: ❋ Unknown (2006)

That Alroy is written in metrical prose punctuated by what Disraeli called ❋ Unknown (1979)

One special feature of the present version is the appearance, for the first time, in English metrical shape, preserving the external form and rhyme movement of the originals, of the whole of the poetry with which the Arabic text is so freely interspersed. ❋ Anonymous (1879)

It abounds in metrical faults, but is occasionally not without some rude spirit and some copiousness of fancy in the variation of the circumstances in the different combats of the hero Walther, prince of Aquitania. ❋ Unknown (1206)

Properly understood, this that they call the metrical test is doubtless, as they say, the surest or the sole sure key to one side of the secret of Shakespeare; but they will never understand it properly who propose to secure it by the ingenious device of numbering the syllables and tabulating the results of a computation which shall attest in exact sequence the quantity, order, and proportion of single and double endings, of rhyme and blank verse, of regular lines and irregular, to be traced in each play by the horny eye and the callous finger of a pedant. ❋ Algernon Charles Swinburne (1873)

A new system of weights and measures, known as the metrical, was planned, and a new mode of reckoning time was introduced. ❋ Philip Van Ness Myers (N/A)

In spite of what I had better call my metrical precociousness, which I deal with in detail in a later chapter, I was exceedingly fond of outdoor sports of all sorts. ❋ Strachey, John St Loe (1922)

The hymn may then be defined as a metrical or rhythmical praise of God; and the psalm, accompanied sacred song or canticle, either taken from the Psalms or from some less authoritative source (St. Augustine declaring that a canticle may be without a psalm but not a psalm without a canticle). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The following verses from _Psalm_ cxxxvii. are a sample of the so-called metrical translation which the Puritans sang: -- ❋ Reuben Post Halleck (1897)

In spite of what I had better call my metrical precociousness, which I deal with in detail in a later chapter, ❋ John St. Loe Strachey (1893)

This is in the context of Orr's own postulate of "categories of categories," namely "metrical form...resemblance form... and mechanical form" confusing, yes. ❋ Anis Shivani (2011)

It is not to be supposed, what we now call metrical romances were always read. ❋ Matilda Betham (1814)

Scandinavian prosodies made it a determining principle; and in the north of England it survived well into the fifteenth century; but since then it has been considered a too 'easy' kind of metrical ornament, one to be used sparingly and only for very special effects. ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)

Few persons, whether translators or readers, are likely to object to Conington’s first premise that the translator ought to aim at “some kind of metrical conformity to his original. ❋ Unknown (1914)

If a line is felt as "metrical," i.e. divided into approximately equal time-intervals, the particular label employed to indicate the nature of the metre is unimportant. ❋ Bliss Perry (1907)

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