anapaestic

adj

1. (not-comparable)British standard spelling of anapestic.

   “The public has referred the question to Time: the procedure of this great king I venture to describe, from precedents, by an adaptation of some smart anapaestic tetrameters--your anapaest is the foot for satire to halt on, both in Greek and English--which I read about twenty years ago, and with the point of which I was much tickled.”

noun

1. British standard spelling of anapestic.