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.
[1913 Webster]
The prop | er stud | y of | mankind | is man.
[1913 Webster]
2. a pause or interruption (as in a conversation); as, after
an ominous caesura the preacher continued.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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)]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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