Definition of Pausal

1. pertaining to a break or rest in speaking or writing [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pausal

pauperises
pauperising
pauperism
pauperisms
pauperization
pauperizations
pauperize
pauperized
pauperizes
pauperizing
paupers
paupiette
paupiettes
pauropoda
pausable
pausal (current term)
pause
paused
pauseful
pauseless
pauselessly
pauser
pausers
pauses
pausing
pausingly
pausings
pautovite
pauxi
pauxis

Literary usage of Pausal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Accentuation of the Twenty-one So-called Prose Books of by William Wickes (1887)
"The accents may be divided into two classes, according to their pausal (disjunctive), or non-pausal (conjunctive) character 2. In using these terms, ..."

2. Biblical Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon by Franz Delitzsch (1882)
"... has not passed over into the pausal ^Try, arises from this, ... the clause completes itself only by 46; the pausal form on that account also is not ..."

3. Ewald's Introductory Hebrew Grammar by Heinrich Ewald, John Frederick Smith (1870)
"... found with the accentus conjunctive, in like manner the pausal pronunciations, S 92 sq, are allowable with the accentus dis- ..."

4. A Commentary on the Psalms by George Phillips (1872)
"... but is put to a vocative noun. The Syr. accent called ..nmo.. J^oi j is pausal ... or^<» JJ, j^oii, is not pausal, but is used to mark a vocative, ..."

5. Lectures on the Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages by William Wright (1890)
"... is actually found once in < T;|T Hebrew in the pausal »{5>fi} D^Dn. Ps. Ivii. 2, whereas the ordi- • ; - TTT ' nary pausal form is ..."

6. Introductory Hebrew Method and Manual by William Rainey Harper (1886)
"y\y, pausal for УУ»,~<ДО Impf, of JTU, î 82. ... Т]ЛК) pausal for ?]ЛМ, the prep. ЛК with; cf. ПЛК, in which , = ЛК, the sign of the def. ..."

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