ANAPÆST
\ˈanɐpˌast], \ˈanɐpˌast], \ˈa_n_ɐ_p_ˌa_s_t]\
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ANAPEST, an'a-pest, n. (in verse) a foot consisting of three syllables, two short and the third long, or (in Eng.) two unaccented and the third accented, as colonnadé--a familiar example of a poem in this metre is Byron's Destruction of Sennacherib.--adjs. ANAPÆS'TIC, -AL. [Gr. anapaistos, reversed, because it is the dactyl reversed.]
By Thomas Davidson
