Accentor inæ (aksentorine)

pl. [NL., accentual (ak-sen'tū-al), a. and n. [=It. accen tuale, Diderot's choice of prose was dictated and justified by the accentual poverty of his mother-tongue. Lowell , Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 342. The term figurate which we now employ to distinguish florid from simple melody was used to denote that which was simply rhythmical or accentual . W. Mason, E ay on Church Music, p. 28. Accentual feet, meters, etc., those in which the rhythmical beat or ictus coincides with the syllabic accent or stre , as in modern poetry: opposed to quantitative feet, meters, etc., in which the ictus falls upon syllables literally long or prolonged in time, as in ancient Greek and Latin poetry. See quantity . II. n. An accent-mark. position. It is divided into two kinds, grammatical and rhetorical or esthetic. The first is perfectly regular in its occurrence, always falling on the first part of a bar; the esthetic accent is irregular, and depends on taste and