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ictus
[ ik-tuhs ]
noun
, plural ic·tus·es, ic·tus.
- Prosody. rhythmical or metrical stress.
- Pathology.
- an epileptic seizure.
- a stroke, especially a cerebrovascular accident.
ictus
/ ˈɪktəs /
noun
- prosody metrical or rhythmic stress in verse feet, as contrasted with the stress accent on words
- med a sudden attack or stroke
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Derived Forms
- ˈictal, adjective
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Other Words From
- ictic adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ictus1
1700–10; < Latin: stroke, thrust, equivalent to īc ( ere ) to strike with a weapon + -tus suffix of v. action
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ictus1
C18: from Latin icere to strike
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Example Sentences
Latterly, the underlying metrical ictus is at times hard to detect.
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Coleridge, it is true, and Scott had employed a broken rhythm, substituting the temporal for the syllabic ictus, to vary the monotony of the eight-syllabled narrative verse.
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The translator shows his good judgment when he retains the original strophe, the characteristic last half-verse with its four ictus included.
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The thesis becomes a triseme if the next syllable bears the ictus.
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But then it has the double ictus; and, as the word implies, is divisible into three parts, thus giving a quickness and shortness where wanted.
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