caesural
caesural adjective: of or pertaining to a caesura.
Adjective
caesural (not comparable)
- 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
Origin of caesural
From caesura + -al.
Words that rhyme with caesural
- plural
- anural
- crural
- epidural
- epipleural
- extramural
- intramural
- jural
- mural
- neural
- pleural
- bronchopleural
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- caricatural
- cesural
- commissural
- cynosural
- duoplural
- dural
- extradural
- extrapleural
- interpleural
- intradural
- intrapleural
- juxtapleural
- macrural
- myodural
- myoneural
- nomenclatural
- nonepidural
- nonneural
- nonrural
- peridural
- photomural
- postdural
- procural
- rural
- semirural
- sensorineural
- splanchnopleural
- sternopleural
- subdural
- subpleural
- superplural
- sural
- transdural
- transpleural
- Ural
- zygopleural
Questions about caesural
- What does caesural mean?
- Caesural means of or pertaining to a caesura.
- What part of speech is caesural?
- Caesural is an adjective.
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