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cæsural

cæsural is the archaic form of caesural.

Meaning of caesural

Adjective

caesural (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to a caesura.
    • By the third decade of the eighteenth century, the syllabic line that really threatened to stay was an uncouth thing of thirteen syllables (counting the obligative feminine terminal), with a caesura after the seventh syllable: […] The order of the stresses in the thirteener went in jumps and jolts...1964, Vladimir Nabokov, “The Origination of Metrical Verse in Russia”, in Notes on Prosody […] (Bollingen Series; LXXIIa), New York, N.Y.: Bollingen Foundation, →OCLC, page 35

Questions about cæsural

What is cæsural the archaic form of?
Cæsural is the archaic form of caesural.

Words near cæsural in the dictionary

  1. cæsaropapism
  2. Cæsars
  3. cæsious
  4. cæsium
  5. cæsura
  6. cæsural
  7. cæsuras
  8. cæsuræ
  9. cæteris paribus
  10. cèilidh
  11. cèilidhs

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