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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having a metrically complete pattern, especially having the full number of syllables in the final foot. Used of verse.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In prosody, not halting short; complete; having the complete number of syllables in the last foot: as, an acatalectic verse.
  2. n. A verse which has the complete number of syllables in the last foot.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse
  2. n. A verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables
  3. adj. Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse
  4. n. A verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Not defective; complete.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. (verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot
  2. n. (prosody) a line of verse that has the full number of syllables

Etymologies

  1. Late Latin acatalēcticus, from Greek akatalēktikos : a-, not; see a-1 + katalēktikos, incomplete; see catalectic.

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