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distich
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A war is undertaken for an epigram or a distich, as in Europe for a duchy.
Leo used occasionally to send him some dishes from his table; and he was expected to pay for each dish with a Latin distich.
That distich which Shakespeare puts in the mouth of his madman in K. Lear, act iii.
So ran an agonised distich I found written up on a rock somewhere.
The chief forms of verse used are the elegiac distich (most frequent), scazons, and hendecasyllabics.
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On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to distich, such as: verse, poem, and unit.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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