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Enclitic. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1897, rev. 2025. Enclitic a. and sb. Gram. Also 8 enclytick. [ad. L. enclitic-us, a. Gr. ἐγκλιτικ-ός, f. ἐν on + κλίνειν to lean.]

1   A.  adj. That ‘leans its accent on the preceding word’ (Liddell and Scott): in Greek grammar the distinctive epithet of those words which have no accent, and which (when phonetic laws permit) cause a secondary accent to be laid on the last syllable of the word which they follow. Hence applied to the analogous Latin particles -que, -ve, -ne, etc., and in mod. use (with extension of sense) to those unemphatic words in other langs. that are treated in pronunciation as if forming part of the preceding word.

2 1656.  Blount, Glossogr., Enclitick, that inclines or gives back.

3 1750.  Harris, Hermes, I. v. (1786), 85, note. The Diversity between the Contradistinctive Pronouns, and the Enclitic, is not unknown even to the English Tongue.

4 1855.  Browning, Grammarian’s Fun. Gave us the doctrine of the enclitic De.

5 1857.  Rawlinson, Anc. Mon., IV. iv. 227. The pronouns had in certain cases an enclitic form.

6   B.  sb. An enclitic word.

7 1663.  in Bullokar.

8 1709.  Steele, Tatler, No. 18, ¶ 1. They are busy in making Emendations upon some Encliticks in a Greek Author.

9 1750.  Harris, Hermes, I. v. (1786), 85, note (T.). When we say, Give me Content, the (Me) in this case is a perfect Enclitic.

10 1878.  Parry, Grk. Gram., 175. If several Enclitics come together, each throws its accent on the preceding.

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