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Definition of dactylic : 1. A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics.
2. meters.
3. Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses.

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• And in his review of " The Courtship of Miles Standish," Lowell makes effective use of his scholarship to introduce a lengthy and interesting discourse on the dactylic hexameter. - "The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays", James Russell Lowell.
• Of verse, or poetic measure, we have, accordingly, four principal kinds, or orders; namely, Iambic, Trochaic, Anapestic, and Dactylic; as in the four lines cited above. - "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown.
• Full dactylic generally forms triple rhyme. - "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown.