epicenter (episenter)

[ on, IMG:content-0596.png:[blocks in formation] tebral trals," element and "epipleurals";... they may adhere to all the pin eur als, are reisent Owen, Anat., I. 43. in the herring. or of the country, Local or epichorial superstitions from every district of Europe come forward by you sands. De Quincey, Modern Superstition. epichoriambic (ep-i-kō-ri-am'bik), a . [ χοριαμβικός , having a choriambus following upon a different measure, ἐπί , upon, in addition, + χορίαμβος , choriambus.] In anc. pros., containing a choriambus (- ((-) preceded con by a trochaic dipody: an epithet applied by some Greek metricians to verses, such as the Sapphic hendecasyllabic and the Eupolidean, which are now cla ed as log aædic meters. See epionic . epichoric cic (ep-i-ko'rik), a . [As epichor - ial + -ic.] Same as epichorial . The epichoric alphabet was supplanted by the Ionic variety. The Academy , March 3, 1888, p. 154.