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† Foot a. World English Historical Dictionary

† Foot a. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022. † Foot a. Obs. rare. [the prec. sb. used attrib.] Of style or language (after L. pedester): Prosaic, ‘low,’ without elevation.

1 1582.  Stanyhurst, Poems, Ps. iii., note (Arb.), 131. Bvt of al theese bace and foot verses (so I terme al sauluing thee Heroical and Elegiacal) thee Saphick, too my seeming, hath thee prehemynencye.

2 1604.  Hieron, Preachers Plea, Serm. (1614), 535. For a man (saith hee [Jerome]) that handleth holy matters, a lowe and (as it were) a foote oration [pedestris oratio] is necessarie, and not such as is thickned with artificiall framing of words.

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