a. and sb. Pros. [ad. Gr. ἀσυνάρτητος not connected (also used subst. of verses), f. ἀ priv. + συν-αρτά-ειν to knit together.] A. adj. Not connected; consisting of two members having different rhythms. B. sb. A verse of this nature. Hence Asynartetic a.
[1792[?]. Burney, Parr’s Wks. (1828), VII. 412. Which follows another asynartetum, which also ends with ithyphallic.]
1830. trans. Aristoph., Wasps, 122, note. The metre … is an asynartete of Iamb. and Troch.
1847. Grote, Greece, II. xxix. (1862), III. 77. Combinations of the dactyl, trochee and iambus, analogous to the asynartetic verses of Archilochus.
