melibean Meaning, Definition & Usage

Mel`i*be"an, Mel`i*b"an adjective (Also<
  • Melibean
  • Meliban
)
Etymology
From L. Meliboeus, one of the interlocutors in Virgil's first Eclogue.
Definitions
  1. (Rhet.) Alternately responsive, as verses.

Webster 1913