catalectic in English

adjective
1
(of a metrical line of verse) lacking one syllable in the last foot.
The concept of catalexis and the catalectic verse is important in the study of the anapaestic dimeter.
noun
1
a line lacking a syllable in the last foot.

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1. Acatalectic definition, not catalectic; complete

2. 2 antonyms for Acatalectic: catalectic, hypercatalectic

3. Encounterers pearlites hydrobiologist catalectic pepperbox Barretries

4. 2 antonyms for Acatalectic: catalectic, hypercatalectic

5. The former is trochaic—the latter is octametre Acatalectic, alternating with heptametre catalectic repeated in the refrain of the fifth verse, and terminating with tetrametre catalectic.

6. Each stanza is constructed from six lines which Poe claimed were a mixture of forms, “octameter Acatalectic” (lines 1 and 3) “octameter catalectic” (lines 2,4, and 5) and “tetrameter catalectic” (line 6) “Octameter Acatalectic:” is a line of eight meters, each meter composed of two poetic feet – …

7. In the first place, he broke entirely with alliteration and with any-length lines, composing his poem in a metre which is either a fifteen-syllabled iambic tetrameter catalectic, or else, as the reader pleases, a series of distichs in iambic dimeters, alternately Acatalectic and catalectic.

8. Acatalectic: 1 adj (verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot Antonyms: catalectic (verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot hypercatalectic (verse) having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of a metrically complete verse

9. Catalectic: 1 adj (verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot Antonyms: Acatalectic (verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot hypercatalectic (verse) having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of a metrically complete verse

10. Catalectic (adj.) 1580s, of a line of verse, "wanting an unaccented syllable in the last foot," from Late Latin catalecticus, from Greek katalektikos "leaving off," from kata "down" (see cata-) + legein "to leave off, cease from," from PIE root *sleg-"be slack, be languid." A complete line is said to be Acatalectic.