Thesaurus: leonine

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1. a. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; as, a leonine look; leonine rapacity.
2. adj. of or characteristic of or resembling a lion
3. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; as, a leonine look; leonine repacity. -- Le"o*nine*ly, adv. Leonine verse, a kind of verse, in which the end of the line rhymes with the middle; -- so named from Leo, or Leoninus, a Benedictine and canon of Paris in the twelfth century, who wrote largely in this measure, though he was not the inventor. The following line is an example: Gloria factorum temere conceditur horum.
4. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; as, a leoninelook; leonine repacity.-- Le"o*nine*ly, adv. Leonine verse, a kind of verse, in which theend of the line rhymes with the middle; -- so named from Leo, orLeoninus, a Benedictine and canon of Paris in the twelfth century,who wrote largely in this measure, though he was not the inventor.The following line is an example:Gloria factorum temere conceditur horum.
5. j:100 a. of or characteristic of or resembling a lion