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caesura n. 休止 休止 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 linecaesura \ 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] 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
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