Meaning of arsis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Raising of the voice in prosody, accented part of a metrical foot
2. The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat.
   countable, uncountable
3. The stronger part of a metrical foot: the part containing the long (heavy) syllable in quantitative meter, or the stressed syllable in a qualitative meter.
   countable, uncountable
4. The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar, opposed to the thesis.
   countable, uncountable
5. The elevation of the voice to a higher pitch in speaking.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“it comes to pass that the arsis may effect some change in the order of which it is itself the commencement”

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