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صرّعهُ

Root: صرع

Form: 2

Full Definition

صرّعهُII , [Verbal.Noun تَصْرِيعٌ,] He threw him down or prostrated him, on the ground, vehemently; namely, a man.

def.2 صرّع البَابَ, Verbal.Noun as above, He made the door-way to have what are termed مِصْرَاعَانِ [i. e. a pair of folding doors]; as also صَرَعَهُ .
2 And [hence,] صرّع الشِّعْرَ He made the poetry to have what are termed مِصْرَاعَانِ; as also صَرَعَهُ : or التَّصْرِيعُ فِى الشِّعْرِ, or تَصْرِيعُ البَيْتِ مِنَ الشِّعْرِ, is the making the first مِصْرَاع [meaning hemistich] to rhyme [like the second]; [i. e.] the making the last foot of the first hemistich like the last of the second [in rhyme]: derived from the مِصْرَاع of the door-way.
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