ictic

See also: íctic

English

Etymology

Latin ictus (“a blow”).

Adjective

ictic (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to, or caused by, a blow; sudden; abrupt.
   • 1858, Horace Bushnell, Sermons for the New Life:

     It is not, on one hand, the power of omnipotence, or of a naked, ictic force, falling in secretly regenerative blows, like a slung shot in the night.

2. (poetry) of a syllable in verse, carrying the beat.

References

“ictic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.