ictic
IPA: ˈaɪtɪk
adjective
- Pertaining to, or caused by, a blow; sudden; abrupt.
- (poetry) of a syllable in verse, carrying the beat.
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Examples of "ictic" in Sentences
- We have said that Vishnu is raised to his position without ictic suddenness.
- This condition of affairs was not achieved uno ictic, but by a long course of evolution.
- It is an early case of the same absence of study or intellectual preparation for belief that is rampant in the idea of ictic conversion.
- 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.
- By a motion of his hand, the priest breaks in, to interrupt and displace all the laws of character in life — communicating an abrupt, ictic grace, as much wider of all dignity and reason, than any which the new light theology has asserted, as the regenerative power is more subject to a human dispensation.