Leonine

Leonine (lē"o*nīn) , adjective

[Latin leoninus, from leo, leonis, lion: compare French léonin. See Lion.]

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; as, a leonine look; leonine rapacity.

Gloria factorum temere conceditur horum.

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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: