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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 I·on·ic, n.
 1. Pros. (a) A foot consisting of four syllables: either two long and two short, -- that is, a spondee and a pyrrhic, in which case it is called the greater Ionic; or two short and two long, -- that is, a pyrrhic and a spondee, in which case it is called the smaller Ionic. (b) A verse or meter composed or consisting of Ionic feet.
 2. The Ionic dialect; as, the Homeric Ionic.
 3. Print. Ionic type.
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