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CATALEXIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("catalexis" is a kind of...):
beat; cadence; measure; meter; metre ((prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse)
Derivation:
catalectic ((prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot)
catalectic ((verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot)
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