ACATALECTIC | • acatalectic adj. (Poetry, prosody) Designating a line of verse having the required number of syllables in the last foot. • acatalectic n. (Poetry, prosody) A verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables. • ACATALECTIC adj. having a complete or full number of syllables. |
ACATALECTICS | • acatalectics n. Plural of acatalectic. • ACATALECTIC n. a poetic line having a complete number of syllables. |
ACATALEPSIES | • ACATALEPSY n. the sceptic doctrine that knowledge cannot be certain. |
ACATALEPSY | • acatalepsy n. Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge… • ACATALEPSY n. the sceptic doctrine that knowledge cannot be certain. |
ACATALEPTIC | • acataleptic adj. Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible; inconceivable. • acataleptic n. An adherent of acatalepsy. • ACATALEPTIC n. a person who suspends judgment in the belief that certainty is impossible. |
ACATALEPTICS | • acataleptics n. Plural of acataleptic. • ACATALEPTIC n. a person who suspends judgment in the belief that certainty is impossible. |
CATALECTIC | • catalectic adj. (Poetry) (said of a line with incomplete meter) lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot. • catalectic adj. Incomplete; partial; not affecting the whole of a substance. • catalectic n. (Poetry) A line with incomplete meter, lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot. |
CATALECTICS | • catalectics n. Plural of catalectic. • CATALECTIC n. a line of verse lacking one syllable in the last foot. |
CATALEPSIES | • catalepsies n. Plural of catalepsy. • CATALEPSY n. a rigid or trancelike fit. |
CATALEPSY | • catalepsy n. (Pathology) A severe bodily condition, described in psychiatric pathology, marked by sudden rigidity… • CATALEPSY n. a rigid or trancelike fit. |
CATALEPTIC | • cataleptic adj. Pertaining to, or affected by, catalepsy. • cataleptic n. A person experiencing catalepsy. • CATALEPTIC adj. afflicted with catalepsy. |
CATALEPTICALLY | • cataleptically adv. In a cataleptic way. • CATALEPTIC adv. afflicted with catalepsy. |
CATALEPTICS | • cataleptics n. Plural of cataleptic. • CATALEPTIC n. one afflicted with catalepsy. |
CATALEXES | • catalexes n. Plural of catalexis. • CATALEXIS n. the condition of being catalectic, lacking one syllable in the last foot. |
CATALEXIS | • catalexis n. A shortened or incomplete last foot at the end of a verse. • catalexis n. Truncation at the close of a line of poetry by omission of one or two final syllables. • CATALEXIS n. the condition of being catalectic, lacking one syllable in the last foot. |
HYPERCATALECTIC | • hypercatalectic adj. (Poetry) Which has an extra syllable added to the last dipody (foot of a verse). • HYPERCATALECTIC adj. having an additional syllable or half-foot after the last complete dipody. |
HYPERCATALEXES | • HYPERCATALEXIS n. the state of being hypercatalectic. |
HYPERCATALEXIS | • hypercatalexis n. (Poetry) The addition of one or two syllables to the last foot of a verse. • HYPERCATALEXIS n. the state of being hypercatalectic. |