melic

melic
/mel"ik/, adj.
1. intended to be sung.
2. noting or pertaining to the more elaborate form of Greek lyric poetry, as distinguished from iambic and elegiac poetry.
[1690-1700; < Gk melikós, equiv. to mél(os) limb, song + -ikos -IC]

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