ictus
Americannoun
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Prosody. rhythmical or metrical stress.
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Pathology.
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an epileptic seizure.
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a stroke, especially a cerebrovascular accident.
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noun
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prosody metrical or rhythmic stress in verse feet, as contrasted with the stress accent on words
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med a sudden attack or stroke
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Etymology
Origin of ictus
1700–10; < Latin: stroke, thrust, equivalent to īc ( ere ) to strike with a weapon + -tus suffix of v. action
Example Sentences
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Varro etiam nunc esse paucos ibi, quorum saliuæ contra ictus serpentum medeantur.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Hakluyt, Richard
Ibi videri fuit pugnam acerrimam, ictus validissimos, tinniunt galeæ a percutientium collisione gladiorum, igneæ exsiliunt scintillæ, crepitant arma tumultuantium, perstrepunt voces; Turci se viriliter ingerunt, Templarii strenuissime defendunt.—Ib. cap. xxx. p.
From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Addison, Charles G.
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.
From Thomas Moore by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
They must contain good mouth-filling words, with the vowels in the right place, and the rhythmic ictus at proper distances for chest and hand to keep true time.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 by Various
The syllable which receives the ictus is called the thesis; the rest of the foot is called the arsis.
From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
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