ictic
See also: íctic
English
Etymology
Latin ictus (“a blow”).
Adjective
ictic (not comparable)
- 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.
- 1858, Horace Bushnell, Sermons for the New Life
- (poetry) of a syllable in verse, carrying the beat.
References
ictic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913