Arsis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The short or unaccented part of a metrical foot, especially in quantitative verse.
  • n. The accented or long part of a metrical foot, especially in accentual verse.
  • n. Music The upbeat or unaccented part of a measure.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The stronger part of a musical measure or a metrical foot.
  • n. The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar, opposed to the thesis.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n.
  • n. That part of a foot where the ictus is put, or which is distinguished from the rest (known as the thesis) of the foot by a greater stress of voice.
  • n. That elevation of voice now called metrical accentuation, or the rhythmic accent.
  • n. The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar; -- opposed to thesis.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In prosody: Originally, the metrically unaccented part of a foot, as opposed to the thesis or part which receives the ictus or metrical stress.
  • n. In prevalent modern usage, that part of a foot which bears the ictus or metrical accent, as opposed to the metrically unaccented part, called the thesis.
  • n. In physiol. acoustics, a periodical increase in the intensity of a sound, producing a rhythmical effect.
    • Word Usage
    "While from an objective view-point, the rhythm of the two elements pulsates evenly on the same level, our valuation articulates, as it were, iambic periods, with war as thesis, and peace as arsis."
    Antonym
    thesis   
    Variant
    metrical accentuation   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    thesis   
     
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