See caesura on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1847, Thomas De Quincey, Milton Versus Southey and Landor:",
"text": "The caesura is meant to fall not with the comma after difficult, but after thou; and there is a most effective and grand suspension intended. It is Satan who speaks— Satan in the wilderness; and he marks, as he wishes to mark, the tremendous opposition of attitude between the two parties to the temptation.",
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"ref": "1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table:",
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"ref": "1920, Arthur Quiller-Couch, On The Art of Reading:",
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"ref": "1922, chapter 4, in John Howard, transl., Against the Grain, New York: Lieber & Lewis, translation of À rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans, pages 54–55:",
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"ref": "c. 1870, Robert Louis Stevenson, Nuits Blanches:",
"text": "Like the knocking at the door in Macbeth, or the cry of the watchman in the Tour de Nesle, they show that the horrible cæsura is over and the nightmares have fled away, because the day is breaking and the ordinary life of men is beginning to bestir itself among the streets.",
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"ref": "1847, Thomas De Quincey, Milton Versus Southey and Landor:",
"text": "The caesura is meant to fall not with the comma after difficult, but after thou; and there is a most effective and grand suspension intended. It is Satan who speaks— Satan in the wilderness; and he marks, as he wishes to mark, the tremendous opposition of attitude between the two parties to the temptation.",
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"ref": "1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table:",
"text": "Now, then, for my prologue. I am not going to change my cæsuras and cadences for anybody; so if you do not like the heroic, or iambic trimeter brachy-catalectic, you had better not wait to hear it […]",
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"ref": "1920, Arthur Quiller-Couch, On The Art of Reading:",
"text": "We feel of this, as we feel of a great passage in “Hamlet” or “Lear,” that here is verse at once capable of the highest sublimity and capable of sustaining its theme, of lifting and lowering it at will, with endless resource in the slide and pause of the caesura, to carry it on and on.",
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"ref": "1922, chapter 4, in John Howard, transl., Against the Grain, New York: Lieber & Lewis, translation of À rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans, pages 54–55:",
"text": "He disliked the texture of those stiff verses, in their official garb, their abject reverence for grammar, their mechanical division by imperturbable cæsuras, always plugged at the end in the same way by the impact of a dactyl against a spondee.",
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"ref": "1964, Vladimir Nabokov, “The Origination of Metrical Verse in Russia”, in Notes on Prosody […] (Bollingen Series; LXXIIa), New York, N.Y.: Bollingen Foundation, →OCLC, page 35:",
"text": "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: […]",
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"ref": "c. 1870, Robert Louis Stevenson, Nuits Blanches:",
"text": "Like the knocking at the door in Macbeth, or the cry of the watchman in the Tour de Nesle, they show that the horrible cæsura is over and the nightmares have fled away, because the day is breaking and the ordinary life of men is beginning to bestir itself among the streets.",
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"ref": "2022, Stephen King, chapter 8, in Fairy Tale, page 133:",
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"feminine"
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"feminine"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"word": "tauko"
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{
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"word": "cezúra"
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"word": "中間休止"
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"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cezura"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cesura"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "цезу́ра"
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"feminine"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "de",
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"feminine"
],
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},
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "using two words to divide a metrical foot",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "pt",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"code": "ru",
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"feminine"
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"2": "Zäsur",
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"2": "cesura"
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]
},
{
"form": "caesūra",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "caesūrae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "caesūra<1>"
},
"expansion": "caesūra f (genitive caesūrae); first declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "caesūra<1>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "caedēs"
},
{
"word": "caedō"
},
{
"word": "caeduus"
},
{
"word": "caelāmen"
},
{
"word": "caelātor"
},
{
"word": "caelātūra"
},
{
"word": "caelō"
},
{
"word": "caelum"
},
{
"word": "caesa"
},
{
"word": "caesim"
},
{
"word": "caesiō"
},
{
"word": "caesor"
},
{
"word": "caespes"
},
{
"word": "caesum"
},
{
"word": "caesus"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"a cutting, felling, hewing down"
],
"links": [
[
"cutting",
"cutting"
],
[
"felling",
"felling"
],
[
"hewing",
"hewing"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-1"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"a pause in a verse, caesura"
],
"links": [
[
"pause",
"pause"
],
[
"verse",
"verse"
],
[
"caesura",
"caesura#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-1"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kae̯ˈsuː.ra/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[käe̯ˈs̠uːrä]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/t͡ʃeˈsu.ra/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[t͡ʃeˈs̬uːrä]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "caesura",
"word": "incīsiō"
},
{
"topics": [
"cutting",
"textiles",
"manufacturing",
"business"
],
"word": "caesus"
},
{
"topics": [
"cutting",
"textiles",
"manufacturing",
"business"
],
"word": "sectiō"
}
],
"word": "caesura"
}
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