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, passage=The public has referred the question to Time: the procedure of this great king I venture to describe, from precedents, by an adaptation of some smart anapaestic tetrameters--your anapaest is the foot for satire to halt on, both in Greek and English--which I read about twenty years ago, and with the point of which I was much tickled. }}

Adjective

(en adjective)

of, or relating to, or composed of an anapest.

of, or relating to, one of the distinct beats in a (human?) heartbeat pattern.

of, or relating to, a rhythmic pattern used in certain forms of poetry (see also limeric or limerick).

of, or relating to, certain beats in specific types of drum rhythms, e.g. specific beats within the part played by the "surdo" drum. Surdo literally means "deaf" in Brasilian Portuguese, and the surdo drums play the bass parts in a samba rhythm as performed by a batucada (drumming ensemble) during the Carnaval celebration.