strophical

English

Etymology

From strophe +‎ -ical.

Adjective

strophical (not comparable)

1. Composed of strophes.
   • 1883, George Grove, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians: (A.D. 1450-1880), page 627:

     When he wishes to mark an important word, he does so by giving it two or three notes, or a striking harmony; but rarely departs from the concise strophical form.

   • 1886, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, page 152:

     I now purpose to consider the strophical organization of the trimeter poems.

   • 1931, D. C. Simpson, Walter Lock, Westminster Commentaries - Volume 19, Part 1, page IV:

     The Psalmist is feeling after strophical form, but he does not bind himself to it.

Anagrams

• chiroplast, lithocarps, philocrats, politarchs