priapean

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priapean - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Priapean \Pri`a*pe"an\, n. [Cf. L. Priapeius pertaining to
     Priapus.] (Lat. Pros.)
     A species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be
     divisible into two portions of three feet each, having
     generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an
     amphimacer in the third; -- applied also to a regular
     hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into
     two portions of three feet each. --Andrews.
     [1913 Webster]