ictus

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin ictus (“a blow”), from īco (“to hit, strike”).

Their pieces of battery had not only the execution but the thunder of our cannon also: “Ad ictus moenium cum terribili sonitu editos, pavor et trepidatio cepit.” [“At the battery of the walls, performed with a terrible noise, the defenders began to fear and tremble.”--Idem, ibid., 5.] — Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete, Michel de Montaigne

seizure, raptus

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