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CRETIC

\kɹˈɛtɪk], \kɹˈɛtɪk], \k_ɹ_ˈɛ_t_ɪ_k]\

Definitions of CRETIC

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English

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A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between two long ones (- / -).

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

kr[=e]'tik, adj. and n. Cretan, belonging to Crete: a metrical foot consisting of one short syllable between two long.--n. CR[=E]'TISM, a lie.

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

Metrical foot[Latin]

1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
By Sir Augustus Henry

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