immetrical
English
Etymology
From im- + metrical.
Adjective
immetrical (comparative more immetrical, superlative most immetrical)
- Not metrical or rhythmical.
- 1611, George Chapman, "To the Reader" (poem attached to Iliad)
- French and Italian most immetrical , Their many syllables in harsh collision
- 1932, John Mackinnon Robertson, The Shakespeare Canon: The origination of "Henry V." (page 127)
- An alteration here, leaving immetrical a line already so by turning "this letter is for you" into "these letters are for you," for no apparent reason in the text, can be regarded only as one of the changes made for change's sake.
- 1611, George Chapman, "To the Reader" (poem attached to Iliad)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for immetrical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)