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metrice

metrice [LL] , metrically, in metre: a (as dist. from prose); b (as dist. from rhythmic syllabic verse). a unam sancti Cuthberti vitam, ~e et prosaice scriptam Hist. Cuthb. 211; non positione diptongo vocali ante vocalem, non producto et correpto accentu, non inquam ~e, set prosaice scripsi domno meo domno priori (Lit.) M. Rievaulx 74 p. 82; partim ~e, partim prosaice Capgr. Hen. 19.  b tuis quoque me rescriptis aliquando refice / sive prosa, sive rithmo, sive velis metrice Hil. Ronce. 2. 36; libros ~e composuerat [sc. Ovidius] M. Par. Maj. I 92; a quodam ~e sic dictum est: ‘nulla libris erit apta manus ferrugine tincta’ R. Bury Phil. 15. 194; de quo quidam sic ~e ait: si lapis est unus, dic qua fuit arte levatus; / si lapides plures, dic ubi contigui Eul. Hist. I 412; metrice jam referam, quod adhuc superesse videtur Elmh. Metr. Hen. V 89.

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