Caesural
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Caesural is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to a caesura.
Meaning
Of or pertaining to a caesura.
Example Sentences
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 and varied from line to line. The only rule (followed only by purists) was that the seventh, caesural, syllable must bear a beat.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include caesuric, caesarean, caecal, caesarian, castratory, castral.
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