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Definition: LEONINE VERSE |
LEONINE VERSE1. 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: Gloria factorum temere conceditur horum. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Poetry | Doggerel, Hudibrastic verse, prose run mad; macaronics; macaronic verse, leonine verse; runes. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: LEONINE VERSE |
| Specialty definitions using "LEONINE VERSE": Leonine Verses. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "LEONINE VERSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | versuri leonine. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-e-i-l-n-n-o-r-s-v" | |
-3 letters: innersole. | |
-4 letters: eloiners, enlivens, environs, eversion, innerves, liveners, nervines, nonlives, novelise, overlies, overseen, relieves, relievos, sniveler, venenose, veneries, voleries. | |
-5 letters: elevens, elevons, eloiner, enliven, enviers, environ, erosive, eserine, eveners, innerve, inverse, leonine, leviers, liernes, livener, nerolis, nervine, oleines, overlie, oversee, releves, relieve, relievo, relines, relives, renvois, resolve, reviles, ronnels, servile, silvern, veeries, veilers. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-e-i-l-n-n-o-r-s-v" | |
+5 letters: convertiblenesses. | |
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