a. Obs. Also 7 (erron.) enclytical. [f. as prec. + -AL.]
1. = ENCLITIC a.
1612. Brinsley, Lud. Lit., 110. The Enclyticall Coniunction que.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Enclitical conjunctions … cast back the accent to the syllable going before.
2. nonce-use. That leans against something.
1773. Graves, Spir. Quix., II. vii. 200 (D.). A little shed, or enclitical pent-house.
Hence Enclitically adv., in an enclitic manner, as an enclitic.
1845. Stoddart, in Encycl. Metrop. (1847), I. 84/1. The Latin que, used only enclitically indeed in modern Latin.
1871. Earle, Philol. Eng. Tong., § 598 (1880). The second and third words lean enclitically upon the first.
