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单词 hypercatalectic
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hypercatalecticadj.

/ˌhʌɪpəkatəˈlɛktɪk/
Etymology: < late Latin hypercatalēcticus (Greek ὑπερκατάληκτος is recorded); see hyper- prefix 1a and catalectic adj. and n.
Prosody.
Of a verse or colon: Having an extra syllable after the last complete dipody. Also applied to the syllable itself. †Formerly also = hypermetric adj.Used occasionally of Old English verse.
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elbowic1654
hypercatalectic1704
hypermetrical1751
hypermetric1865
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Deposition Hypercatalectick, where a Syllable or two are Redundant.
1752 T. Newton Milton's Mask 631 Such redundant or hyper~catalectick verses sometimes occur in Milton.
1813 J. J. Conybeare in Archaeologia (1814) 17 265 Of the Trochaic species, with the Hypercatalectic syllable, as, Ahte ic, ealdor, stol.
1886 J. B. Mayor Eng. Metre i. 10 To state whether it is metrically complete, or incomplete, owing to final or initial truncation, or more than complete..in technical language, whether it is acatalectic, catalectic or hypercatalectic.
1894 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1891–4 386 Expanded lines, called by German scholars Schwell~verse or Streck-verse, are hypercatalectic.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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