C[ae]sura

caesura \cae*su"ra\, n.; pl. E. {caesuras}, L. {C[ae]sur[ae]}
   [L. caesura a cutting off, a division, stop, fr. caedere,
   caesum, to cut off. See {Concise}.]
   A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a
   foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause
   in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the
   c[ae]sural accent rests, or which is used as a foot.
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   Note: In the following line the c[ae]sura is between study
         and of.
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               The prop | er stud | y of | mankind | is man.
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   2. a pause or interruption (as in a conversation); as, after
      an ominous caesura the preacher continued.
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138 Moby Thesaurus words for "caesura":
      Alexandrine, abeyance, accent, accentuation, amphibrach,
      amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, arsis, bacchius, beat,
      boundary, breach, break, cadence, catalexis, cease-fire, cessation,
      chloriamb, chloriambus, clearance, colon, comma, counterpoint,
      cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, day off, diaeresis, dimeter,
      dipody, discontinuity, distance between, dochmiac, double space,
      drop, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, em space,
      emphasis, en space, epitrite, feminine caesura, fissure, foot,
      freeboard, gap, hair space, half space, heptameter, heptapody,
      heroic couplet, hesitation, hexameter, hexapody, hiatus, holiday,
      iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, interim, interlude,
      intermediate space, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence,
      interruption, interspace, interstice, interval, ionic, jingle,
      jump, juncture, lacuna, lapse, layoff, leap, leeway, letup, lilt,
      lull, margin, masculine caesura, measure, meter, metrical accent,
      metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metron, molossus,
      mora, movement, numbers, paeon, pause, pentameter, pentapody,
      period, point, proceleusmatic, pyrrhic, quantity, recess,
      remission, respite, rest, rhythm, room, semicolon, single space,
      space, space between, spondee, sprung rhythm, stand-down, stay,
      stop, stress, suspension, swing, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody,
      tetraseme, thesis, time interval, tribrach, trimeter, tripody,
      triseme, trochee, truce, vacation