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Required or done under penalty. Gauden.

The edible fruit of an East Indian tree (Baccaurea Malayana) of the Spurge family. It somewhat resembles an apple.

Producing, or favoring the production of, urine.

Hell; the bottomless pit. [Poetic] In all her gates, Abaddon rues Thy bold attempt. Milton.

An abrupt place. [Poetic] "Over the vast abrupt." Milton.

An academy. [Poetic] Shak.

Acclamation. [Poetic] Milton.

Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry. Brande.

World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. Shak.

The top or highest point; the culmination. The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry. Pope. The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy. I. Taylor.

A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian. Double acrostic, a species of enigma, in which words are to be guessed whose initial and final letters form other words.

t or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.

ss; but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. Milton.

Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem.

Down. [Archaic & Poetic] Her hair adown her shoulders loosely lay displayed. Prior.

The great epic poem of Virgil, of which the hero is Æneas.

Aërial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary. [Poetic] M. Arnold.

A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. Spence.

Africa. [Poetic]

To look after. [Poetic] Shak.