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ictus - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Medicine A sudden attack, blow, stroke, or seizure.
- noun The accent that falls on a stressed syllable in a line of scanned verse.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stroke: as, ictus solis, sunstroke.
- noun In prosody and music, rhythmical or metrical stress; additional intensity of utterance or delivery distinguishing one time or syllable in a foot or series from the others.
- noun in which the accent is marked and the syllables bearing the ictus are italicized. The part of a foot on which the ictus falls is called the thesis (but see
arsis ). In a dipody one ictus is stronger than the other. In a colon the ictus of one measure dominates all others. A subordinate ictus can also accompany the principal ictus within the same foot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Pros.) The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word. Cf.
arsis . - noun (Med.) A stroke or blow, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
pulse - noun medicine A
sudden attack ,blow ,stroke , orseizure , as in asunstroke , thesting of aninsect ,pulsation of anartery , etc. - noun The
stress ofvoice laid upon an accentedsyllable of a word. Comparearsis .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin, stroke, from past participle of īcere, to strike.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From the Latin ictus ("a blow"), from īcio ("I hit, strike, or smite”; “I stab or sting").
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Examples
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If you don't know how to conduct, that's okay - the game is more concerned that you can give a consistent flick, or "ictus," rather than whether or not you know what a
The Tanooki 2008
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In describing what happened in Milan, the phrase “ictus occuli ” is used at the apex of the pilgrim`s ascent when he touches God or God touched him but only for the briefest of moments.
Two Allegories 2009
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Horizontal episemas and and especially the ictus are of course not found in the Dominican and Cistercian Chant tradition to name just two Chant families, and there is a reason-they weren't needed.
Archive 2008-05-18 papabear 2008
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But these longs again are peculiar, and sometimes strike the European ear as shorts, thus adding a difficulty for those who would represent Oriental metres by western feet, ictus and accent.
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Oliver. de Johanne primo Portugalliae Rege strenue pugnans, et diversae partis ictus clypeo excipiens.
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Ad occasum solis aegre domum rediens, atque totum die ex adverso deae sedens recto, in ipsam perpetuo oculorum ictus direxit, &c.
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Havena I missed the chance to turn out as clarissimus an ictus, as auld Grunwiggin himself? —
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Ut lubet feriat, abstergant hos ictus Democriti pharmacos.
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[4025] Expers terroris Achilles armatus: as a tortoise in his shell, [4026] virtute mea me involvo, or an urchin round, nil moror ictus [4027] a lizard in camomile, I decline their fury and am safe.
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Interdum quoque sensimus tanquam graues baculorum ictus, per humeros, dorsa, latera, et ad renes, alij quidem grauiores, alij vt puta secundum demeritum vniuscuiusque.
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Words with the same meaning
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- Jacksonian epilepsy
- Rolandic epilepsy
- abdominal epilepsy
- accent
- accentuation
- access
- acquired epilepsy
- activated epilepsy
- affect epilepsy
- akinetic epilepsy
- amphibrach
- amphimacer
- anacrusis
- anapest
- antispast
- apoplexy
- arrest
- arsis
- attack
- autonomic epilepsy
- bacchius
- beat
- blockage
- cadence
- caesura
- cardiac epilepsy
- catalexis
- chloriamb
- chloriambus
- clonic spasm
- clonus
- colon
- convulsion
- cortical epilepsy
- counterpoint
- cramp
- cretic
- cursive epilepsy
- dactyl
- dactylic hexameter
- diaeresis
- dimeter
- dipody
- diurnal epilepsy
- dochmiac
- eclampsia
- elegiac
- elegiac couplet
- elegiac pentameter
- emphasis
- epilepsia
- epilepsia gravior
- epilepsia major
- epilepsia minor
- epilepsia mitior
- epilepsia nutans
- epilepsia tarda
- epilepsy
- epitasis
- epitrite
- falling sickness
- feminine caesura
- fit
- focal epilepsy
- foot
- frenzy
- grammatical accent
- grand mal
- grip
- haute mal
- heptameter
- heptapody
- heroic couplet
- hexameter
- hexapody
- hysterical epilepsy
- iamb
- iambic
- iambic pentameter
- intonation
- intonation pattern
- ionic
- jingle
- larval epilepsy
- laryngeal epilepsy
- laryngospasm
- latent epilepsy
- level of stress
- lilt
- lockjaw
- masculine caesura
- matutinal epilepsy
- measure
- menstrual epilepsy
- meter
- metrical accent
- metrical foot
- metrical group
- metrical unit
- metrics
- metron
- molossus
- mora
- movement
- musicogenic epilepsy
- myoclonous epilepsy
- nocturnal epilepsy
- numbers
- occlusion
- orgasm
- paeon
- paroxysm
- pentameter
- pentapody
- period
- petit mal
- physiologic epilepsy
- pitch accent
- primary stress
- proceleusmatic
- prosodics
- prosody
- psychic epilepsy
- psychomotor epilepsy
- pyrrhic
- quantity
- reflex epilepsy
- rhetorical accent
- rhythm
- rhythmic pattern
- rhythmical accent
- rhythmical stress
- rotatoria
- secondary stress
- seizure
- sensory epilepsy
- serial epilepsy
- sexual climax
- spasm
- spondee
- sprung rhythm
- stoppage
- stress
- stress accent
- stress arsis
- stress pattern
- stroke
- swing
- syzygy
- tardy epilepsy
- tertiary stress
- tetanus
- tetany
- tetrameter
- tetrapody
- tetraseme
- thesis
- throes
- thromboembolism
- thrombosis
- tone accent
- tonic epilepsy
- tonic spasm
- torsion spasm
- traumatic epilepsy
- tribrach
- trimeter
- tripody
- triseme
- trismus
- trochee
- ucinate epilepsy
- visitation
- weak stress
jaime_d commented on the word ictus
From "Au Tombeau de Charles Fourier" by Guy Davenport
January 19, 2010