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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": "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",
"text": "A quiet time. A caesura. Then everything happened almost at once, and none of it was good.",
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{
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"2": "la",
"3": "caesūra",
"4": "",
"5": "cutting, hewing"
},
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"name": "uder"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "caesus"
},
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "caedō",
"3": "",
"4": "I cut down, hew"
},
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"name": "m"
}
],
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{
"form": "caesuras",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "caesurae",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
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"2": "caesurae"
},
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}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"word": "enjambment"
},
{
"word": "hemistich"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
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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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"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 […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art."
],
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[
"pause",
"pause"
],
[
"interruption",
"interruption"
],
[
"poem",
"poem"
],
[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"building",
"building"
],
[
"other",
"other"
],
[
"work",
"work"
],
[
"art",
"art"
]
],
"senseid": [
"en:pause"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Using two words to divide a metrical foot."
],
"links": [
[
"prosody",
"prosody"
],
[
"metrical",
"metrical"
],
[
"foot",
"foot"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot."
],
"tags": [
"Classical"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"phonology",
"prosody",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Typography"
],
"glosses": [
"The caesura mark ‖ or ||."
],
"links": [
[
"typography",
"typography"
],
[
"mark",
"mark"
],
[
"‖",
"‖"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(typography) The caesura mark ‖ or ||."
],
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{
"word": "virgule"
}
],
"topics": [
"media",
"publishing",
"typography"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses"
],
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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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022, Stephen King, chapter 8, in Fairy Tale, page 133",
"text": "A quiet time. A caesura. Then everything happened almost at once, and none of it was good.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point."
],
"links": [
[
"turning point",
"turning point"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sɪˈzjʊəɹə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/səˈʒʊɹə/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊəɹə"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-caesura.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b2/En-us-caesura.ogg/En-us-caesura.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/En-us-caesura.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
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{
"word": "cesura"
},
{
"word": "cæsura"
}
],
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{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cezurë"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cesura"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"word": "cesuur"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"word": "tauko"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "césure"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Zäsur"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"word": "cezúra"
},
{
"alt": "ちゅうかんきゅうし",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "chūkan kyūshi",
"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"word": "中間休止"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cezura"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "średniówka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cesura"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "cezúra",
"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "цезу́ра"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "цезура"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "cezura"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cesura"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a pause or interruption",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "cesur"
},
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "using two words to divide a metrical foot",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cezurë"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "using two words to divide a metrical foot",
"word": "kesuura"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "using two words to divide a metrical foot",
"word": "tahtilepo"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "using two words to divide a metrical foot",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "césure"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "using two words to divide a metrical foot",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Zäsur"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "using two words to divide a metrical foot",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cezura"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "using two words to divide a metrical foot",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cesura"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "cezúra",
"sense": "using two words to divide a metrical foot",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "цезу́ра"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "using two words to divide a metrical foot",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "цезура"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "using two words to divide a metrical foot",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "cezura"
}
],
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"caesura"
],
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}
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"categories": [
"Latin 3-syllable words",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin feminine nouns",
"Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
"Latin first declension nouns",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin nouns",
"Latin terms suffixed with -tura",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
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{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "cesura"
},
"expansion": "Catalan: cesura",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Catalan: cesura"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "cesuur",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Dutch: cesuur",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Dutch: cesuur"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "caesura",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: caesura",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: caesura"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "césure"
},
"expansion": "French: césure",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "French: césure"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Zäsur",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ German: Zäsur",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ German: Zäsur"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "cesura"
},
"expansion": "Italian: cesura",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Italian: cesura"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "cesura"
},
"expansion": "Portuguese: cesura",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Portuguese: cesura"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "cesura"
},
"expansion": "Spanish: cesura",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Spanish: cesura"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "caedō",
"3": "-tūra"
},
"expansion": "caedō + -tūra",
"name": "af"
}
],
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{
"form": "caesūra",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "caesūrae",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "caesūrae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "caesūrae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "caesūrārum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "caesūrae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "caesūrīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "caesūram",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "caesūrās",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "caesūrā",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "caesūrīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"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"
}
],
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{
"glosses": [
"a cutting, felling, hewing down"
],
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[
"cutting",
"cutting"
],
[
"felling",
"felling"
],
[
"hewing",
"hewing"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-1"
]
},
{
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"a pause in a verse, caesura"
],
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[
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[
"verse",
"verse"
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[
"caesura",
"caesura#English"
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"declension-1"
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{
"ipa": "/kae̯ˈsuː.ra/",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[käe̯ˈs̠uːrä]",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/t͡ʃeˈsu.ra/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[t͡ʃeˈs̬uːrä]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
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{
"sense": "caesura",
"word": "incīsiō"
},
{
"topics": [
"cutting",
"textiles",
"manufacturing",
"business"
],
"word": "caesus"
},
{
"topics": [
"cutting",
"textiles",
"manufacturing",
"business"
],
"word": "sectiō"
}
],
"word": "caesura"
}
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