Crossword-Solution: CATALECTIC
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Catalectic | a. | Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an imperfect foot; as, a catalectic verse. |
| Catalectic | a. | Incomplete; partial; not affecting the whole of a substance. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “CATALECTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| LINE of verse lacking a syllable in the last foot | 1 answer |
| LINE wanting a syllable in last foot | 1 answer |
| Incomplete | 76 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CATALECTIC (5)
The _synaphea_ peculiar to this metre is neglected by him, and the rule that each system should close with a _paroemiac_ or _dimeter catalectic_ is constantly violated.
Either insert 'Go to' after 'vows;'-- Lends the tongue vows:--Go to, these blazes, daughter-- or read Lends the tongue vows:--These blazes, daughter, mark you-- Shakspeare never introduces a catalectic line without intending an equivalent to the foot omitted in the pauses, or the dwelling emphasis, or the diffused retardation.
But then the 'regulæ' must be first known;--though I will venture to say, that he who does not find a line (not corrupted) of Massinger's flow to the time total of a trimeter catalectic iambic verse, has not read it aright.
But the verse in which this volume is written is catalectic par excellence, employing the pause (as it does the rhyme) with freedom only limited by the exigencies of poetic passion.
For example, the syncopated forms | >q % | and | >q % %_| are demonstrably of shorter average duration than the corresponding measures| >q q | and | >q q q_|; and the pause occurring at the close of a syncopated line--such as that in the middle of a catalectic trochaic tetrameter--should be found of less value than that of the regular foot.