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Literature | Leonine Verses properly speaking, are either hexameter verses, or alternate hexameter and pentameter verses, rhyming at the middle and end of each respective line. These fancies were common in the 12th century, and were so called from Leoninus, a canon of the Church of St. Victor, in Paris, the inventor. In English verse, any metre which rhymes middle and end is called a Leonine verse. One of the most noted specimens celebrates the tale of a Jew, who fell into a pit on Saturday and refused to be helped out because it was his Sabbath. His comrade, being a Christian, refused to aid him the day following, because it was Sunday:- "Tende manus, Salomon, ego te de stercore tollam. Sabbata nostra colo, de stercore surgere nolo, Sabbata nostra quidem Salomon celebrabis ibideri. ' Hexameters and pentameters. "Help for you out of this mire; here, give me your hand, Hezekiah." "Ho! tis the Sabbath, a time labour's accounted a crime. If on the morrow you've leisure, your aid I'll accept with much pleasure." "That will be my Sabbath, so, here I will leave you and go." E. C. B. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: LEONINE VERSES |
| Specialty definitions using "LEONINE VERSES": leonine. (references) |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler Silcox: The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades. Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores: "O tempora! O mores!" It should be explained that Mrs. Silcox does not undertake to teach pronunciation of the Greek and Latin tongues. Leonine verses are so called in honor of a poet named Leo, whom prosodists appear to find a pleasure in believing to have been the first to discover that a rhyming couplet could be run into a single line. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-e-i-l-n-n-o-r-s-s-v" | |
-3 letters: innersoles. | |
-4 letters: elevenses, eversions, innersole, inverness, nerveless, nerviness, nonselves, novelises, snivelers. | |
-5 letters: eeriness, eloiners, enlivens, environs, eserines, evenness, eversion, evilness, innerves, inverses, ironness, liveners, liveness, loneness, lornness, nereises, nervines, nonlives, novelise, overlies, overseen, oversees, reinless, relieves, relievos, resolves, sniveler, veinless, venenose, veneries, venisons, versines, versions, vileness, voleries. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-e-i-l-n-n-o-r-s-s-v" | |
+4 letters: convertiblenesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 45 4F 4E 49 4E 45 56 45 52 53 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01000101 01001111 01001110 01001001 01001110 01000101 00100000 01010110 01000101 01010010 01010011 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L E O N I N E   V E R S E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0045 004F 004E 0049 004E 0045 0056 0045 0052 0053 0045 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)463949484348392563952533953 |
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