Associations to the word «Catalectic»

Wiktionary

CATALECTIC, adjective. (poetry) Said of a line with incomplete meter, lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot.
CATALECTIC, adjective. Incomplete; partial; not affecting the whole of a substance

Dictionary definition

CATALECTIC, noun. (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot.
CATALECTIC, adjective. (verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin