in Rhetoric and Poetry, a term used where the words of a phrase or a verse have the same sound or termination, and yet make no proper rhyme. These are usually accounted vicious in English; though the Romans sometimes used them with elegance; as, Militem comparavi, exercitum ordinavi, aciem luftravi.

ASSONANT rhymes, is a term particularly applied to a kind of verses common among the Spaniards, where a resemblance of sound serves instead of a natural rhyme. Thus ligera, cubierta, tierra, mesa, may answer each other in a kind of affonant rhyme, havi ng each an e in the penult syllable, and an a in the lait.