Caesura

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  caesura \cae*su"ra\, n.; pl. E. {caesuras}, L. {C[ae]sur[ae]}
     [L. caesura a cutting off, a division, stop, fr. caedere,
     caesum, to cut off. See {Concise}.]
     A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a
     foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause
     in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the


     c[ae]sural accent rests, or which is used as a foot.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: In the following line the c[ae]sura is between study
           and of.
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                 The prop | er stud | y of | mankind | is man.
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     2. a pause or interruption (as in a conversation); as, after
        an ominous caesura the preacher continued.
        [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  caesura
       n 1: a pause or interruption (as in a conversation); "after an
            ominous caesura the preacher continued"
       2: a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a
          verse line
       [also: {caesurae} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  138 Moby Thesaurus words for "caesura":
     Alexandrine, abeyance, accent, accentuation, amphibrach,
     amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, arsis, bacchius, beat,
     boundary, breach, break, cadence, catalexis, cease-fire, cessation,
     chloriamb, chloriambus, clearance, colon, comma, counterpoint,
     cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, day off, diaeresis, dimeter,
     dipody, discontinuity, distance between, dochmiac, double space,
     drop, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, em space,
     emphasis, en space, epitrite, feminine caesura, fissure, foot,
     freeboard, gap, hair space, half space, heptameter, heptapody,
     heroic couplet, hesitation, hexameter, hexapody, hiatus, holiday,
     iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, interim, interlude,
     intermediate space, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence,
     interruption, interspace, interstice, interval, ionic, jingle,
     jump, juncture, lacuna, lapse, layoff, leap, leeway, letup, lilt,
     lull, margin, masculine caesura, measure, meter, metrical accent,
     metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metron, molossus,
     mora, movement, numbers, paeon, pause, pentameter, pentapody,
     period, point, proceleusmatic, pyrrhic, quantity, recess,
     remission, respite, rest, rhythm, room, semicolon, single space,
     space, space between, spondee, sprung rhythm, stand-down, stay,
     stop, stress, suspension, swing, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody,
     tetraseme, thesis, time interval, tribrach, trimeter, tripody,
     triseme, trochee, truce, vacation