acatalecticadj.n.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xvi. 107 The Greekes and Latines vsed verses..which they called Catalecticke and Acatalecticke.

1774 E. Capell Notes & Var. Readings Shakespeare I. 151/1 The line itself accords better with the generality of those in this play, being what grammarians call—acatalectic, or having nothing redundant.

1801 European Mag. & London Rev. Aug. 88/1 The species of verse, which our poet has preferred, is the trimeter acatalectic Iambic.

1844 ‘P. Placet’ String of Beads for Romanisers ii. 54 Some folks, 't is true, look'd pale, some hectic; Yet were their lines Acatalectic.

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.

1907 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 18 27 The Eupolidean verse is a combination of the acatalectic and catalectic forms of the polyschematist dimer.

1949 Oxf. Classical Dict. 565/2 At frequent intervals the series of acatalectic dimeters is broken by a catalectic one,..called a ‘paroemiac’.

2007 M. L. West Indo-European Poetry & Myth i. 55 Another kind of octosyllable [in Slavonic verse]..is characterized by trochaic rhythm and thus penultimate stress. This suggests the catalectic category, and again there is a Russian acatalectic equivalent with an extra syllable to provide confirmation.

1611 J. Hoskins in T. Coryate Crudities sig. e6 Trimeters Catalecticks with Antispastic Asclepiads, trimeters Acatalectics consisting of two dactylicall commaes of some learned named Coriambicks.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Catalectic The Antients called Catalectic Verses, those which wanted either Feet or Syllables; in opposition to Acatalectics, which are compleat Verses, wanting nothing.

1756 Monthly Rev. Jan. 252 All this boasted metre we have been examining, consists of Iambic or Trochaic feet; and all the supposed verses arising from them, are distinguished into the learned formalities, and technical obscurities of Iambic or Trochaic monometers;..Monometer Hypercatalectics;..Trimeter Acatalectics, &c. &c. &c.

1824 Cambr. Q. Rev. July 284 We by no means undervalue the science of Catalectics, Acatalectics, Brachycatalectics, [etc.].

1844 C. Beck & C. C. Felton tr. E. Munk Metres Greeks & Romans i. i. 67 The acatalectic is particularly suitable for the close of an entire rhythmical mass.

1865 R. D. Blacmore Cradock Nowell viii, in Macmillan's Mag. June 146/1 No trimeter acatalectics of truest balance and purest fall could be half so fair to scan.

1905 J. C. Collins Stud. Poetry & Crit. 185 The imperturbable Joseph, while waiting..for a summons to administer the last consolations to Theophrastus, improves the occasion by first breaking into iambic trimeter acatalectics on the Curse of Cain.

1958 Classical World 51 140/1 The rhymed fourteeners which [Gilbert] Murray habitually used to represent trochaics appear for the iambic tetrameter acatalectic of Ichneutai.

2004 Jrnl. Musicol. 21 13 The melody..appears in the chapter on iambic meters as a musical example of the iambic trimeter acatalectic.