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Definition of Distich

Distich
Distich Dis"tich, n. [L. distichon, Gr. ?, neut. of ? with two rows, of two verses; di- = di`s- twice + ? row, verse, fr. ? to ascend; akin to AS. st[=i]gan to ascend: cf. F. distique. See Stirrup.] (Pros.) A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense; an epigram of two verses.
Distich
Distich Dis"tich, Distichous Dis"tich*ous, a. [Gr. ?. See Distich, n.] Disposed in two vertical rows; two-ranked.

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- Hemisphere. aurora musis amica dawn is a friend to the muses Title of a distich by Iohannes Christenius (1599–1672): "Conveniens studiis non est nox, commoda...
- Hundred Verses) in Brajbhasha, a collection of approximately seven hundred distichs, which is perhaps the most celebrated Hindi work of poetic art, as distinguished...
- city of Paris. The motto originates as an abbreviation of a longer Latin distich, Niteris inc****um navem submergere Petri / Fluctuat at numquam mergitur...
- tradition (in which he adopted the metrical form of the epode or "iambic distich"). He also wrote dactylic hexameters in conversational and epistolary style...
- than this." Here the sum of both the first and second distich is 5699. In another of his distichs, the hexameter line is equal in number to its corresponding...
- CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 50,000 distichs or couplets (two-line verses), the Shahnameh is one of the world's longest...
- Look up couplet, couplets, or distich in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A couplet is a pair of lines in verse. Couplet may also refer to: Couplet (traffic)...