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Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Anapæst

    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.]

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Anapæst in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Anapæst in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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