Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to a pause or to pauses.
- In Heb. grammar, noting the form which a word receives in the pause of a sentence, in which in certain cases a vowel is changed (usually lengthened), or a weakened vowel reappears in full.
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Examples
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Metro-pausal: The recognition that the best days of a community are decidedly behind them, and that it's all just a downhill slide from here on out ...
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If it were to be taken as a pausal form of the ro'i (with short "o" -- the noun "seeing") found in the middle of the verse, the accent would have to stand on the penult, as
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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The 'adhonay of v. 18 is a pausal form with qamets instead of pathach and is not to be read as "Lord," for nothing indicates that Lot had recognized the Lord in these angels.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Not only is there little evidence of effectiveness of mammography in premeno-pausal women, despite NCI's assurances no warnings were given of the known high risks of breast cancer from the excessive X-ray doses then used.
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It is also identi fi ed by the Algonquin tribes as an aid to proposed that SAM-e can 'optimize the synthesis inducing labor, and treating peri - and postmeno - of neurotransmitters, glutathione and cartilage'; as pausal symptoms.
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