adj. Having a metrically complete pattern, especially having the full number of syllables in the final foot. Used of verse. [Late Latin acatalēcticus, from Greek akatalēktikos : a-, not; see A-1 + katalēktikos, incomplete; see CATALECTIC.] |
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