of or pertaining to sappho, the grecian poetess; as, sapphic odes; sapphic verse.-belonging to, or in the manner of, sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl.-a sapphic verse.