Cre"tic (kr?"t?k), n. [L. Creticus (sc. pes foot), Gr. (sc. foot), prop., a Cretan (metrical) foot.] Gr. & Lat. Pros.
A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between two long ones (--).
Bentley.
© Webster 1913.
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