Lē'o-nīne, a.

a. [Lat. leoninus, from leo, leonis, lion; It. & Sp. leonina, Pr. leonin, Fr. léonin.] Belonging to, or resembling, a lion; as, leonine fierceness or rapacity.

Leonine verse, a kind of verse, the end of which 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 of it.

Gloria factorum temere conceditur honorum.