rare. [f. prec.] trans. To put into cadence, to compose metrically.
a. 1749. Philips, To Ld. Carteret, 47, in Pastorals, etc. (1768), 79 (R.).
| These parting numbers, cadenc’d by my grief, | |
| For thy lov’d sake and for my own relief. |
1873. Symonds, Grk. Poets, i. 18. Empedocles … cadenced his great work on Nature in the same sonorous verse.
