Meaning of "acatalectic" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ACATALECTIC

Via Late Latin from Greek akatalēktikos.

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PRONUNCIATION OF ACATALECTIC

acatalectic  [æˌkætəˈlɛktɪk]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ACATALECTIC

Acatalectic can act as a noun and an adjective.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ACATALECTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Acatalexis

An acatalectic line of verse is one having the metrically complete number of syllables in the final foot. When talking about poetry written in English the term is arguably of limited significance or utility, at least by comparison to its antonym, catalectic, for the simple reason that acatalexis is considered to be the "usual case" in the large majority of metrical contexts and therefore explicit reference to it proves almost universally superfluous. For example, to describe Shakespeare's sonnets as having been written in iambic pentameter acatalectic would be factually accurate, but in practice would be absurd, because iambic pentameter is presumed to be acatalectic unless otherwise specified as being subject to catalexis. However, in very rare contexts where catalexis might be considered probable, explicit expression of the verse's metrical completeness may be achieved by using the term. When talking about poems published in other languages than English the term might prove itself more useful.

Definition of acatalectic in the English dictionary

The definition of acatalectic in the dictionary is having the necessary number of feet or syllables, esp having a complete final foot. Other definition of acatalectic is a verse having the full number of syllables.

TRANSLATION OF ACATALECTIC

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• Translator English - Malay: Akatalektik
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• Translator English - Javanese: Acatalectic
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• Translator English - Tamil: முழுமையான
• Translator English - Marathi: अॅकॅटेलेक्टिक
• Translator English - Turkish: acatalectic
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACATALECTIC»

Discover the use of acatalectic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to acatalectic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Cyclopædia: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, ...

Bo'e't. 144. The iambic trimeter acatalectic, with the iambic dimeter acatalectic; as , ' Ibis liburnis inter alta navium, Amice, propugnaculaffl-Hor. 15. The iambic trimeter acatalectic, with the Archilochian eleglambic; as, ' Petti, nihil me, ficut antea, ...

Abraham Rees, 1819

Introduction to Greek Prosody: In Three Parts, with an ...

In Three Parts, with an Appendix on the Metres of Horace : Adapted to the Use of Beginners Peter Wilson. III. ALCAIC. \% Iambic Dimeter Acatalectic. Antispastic Dimeter Hyfiercatalectic. Tetrameter Brachycatalectic and Acatalectic. Pentameter ...

Peter Wilson, 1811

Menaechmi

xxxiv INTRODUCTION. 131 — 2 Iambic tetrameter catalectic. '33—4 Iambic tetrameter catalectic. 135—225 Trochaic tetrameter catalectic. 226—350 Iambic trimeter. 35" Anapaestic dimeter acatalectic. 352 Iambic dimeter acatalectic + ...

An elementary manual of Latin prosody

Acatalectic, 112 Iambic Verses. Iambic Trimeter Acatalectic, . 113 (or Senarius). Choliambus, or Scazon, . . 117 Comic Iambic Trimeter, . . H8 Iambic Trimeter Catalectic, . 119 Iambic Dimeter Acatalectic, . 119 Iambic Dimeter Hypercatalectic , ...

William Wardlaw Ramsay, 1859

A Manual of Latin Prosody

159 Dactylic Verses. Dactylic Hexameter Acatalectic, 161 Caesura in Dactylic Hexameters, 163 Last word of the Dactylic Hexameter, .... 166 Dactylic Pentameter Acatalectic, 170 Rules for its construction, . . 171 Elegiac Distich, . . . . 174 Dactylic ...

William Ramsay, 1859

Institutes of Latin Grammar

The Sapphic Pentameter, Acatalectic, with an Iambic Dimeter, Acatalectic. (See Sapphics, and Iambics.) Gentis hnmance pater atque cmtos, Quam sancta majestas tui — Buchan, 23. The Sapphic Pentameter, Acatalectic, with the Gly- conic ...

John Grant, 1808

An Elementary Treatise on Latin Prosody, ... with rules for ...

Dactylic Pentameter Acatalectic, - - Rules for its construction, Elegiac Distich, - - Dacrylic Trimeter Catalectic, Dactylic Trimeter Hypercatalectit', - - 188 Dactylic Trimeter with a base, 188 Dacrylic Dimeter Acatalectic, 189 TROCHAIC Vsnsss. On ...

William RAMSAY (M.A., of Glasgow.), 1837

The Birds of Aristophanes, with notes by C.C. Felton

Verses 1-210. Iambic trimeter acatalectic, with comic license. See Munk, pp. 76, 162, 171, seq. 211-225. Anapassts. 211-215. Anapaestic dimeter acatalectic. M. 100. 216. Anaprestic monometer. M. 99. 217-221. Anapaestic dimeter acatalectic.

Aristophanes, Cornelius Conway Felton, 1849

The Birds: With Notes, and a Metrical Table

Iambic trimeter acatalectic, with comic license. See Munk, pp. 76, 162, 171, seq. 211-225. Anapaests. 211-215. Anapaestic dimeter acatalectic. M. 100. 216. Anapaestic monometer. M. 99. 217 - 221. Anapaestic dimeter acatalectic. 222.

Aristophanes, 1861

The Birds of Aristophanes: With Notes, and a Metrical Table

TABLE. OF. RHYTHMS. AND. METRES. [In the following Table, the letter M. stands for Munk's Metres, American edition, translated from the German by Beck and Felton.] PROLOGUS, w. 1 -264. Verses 1 - 210. Iambic trimeter acatalectic, with ...

Aristophanes, Cornelius Conway Felton, 1868

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