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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Mĕt'a-lĕp'tĭc or Mĕt'a-lĕp'tĭc-al, a.

adjective

a. 1. Pertaining to a metalepsis or participation; translative.

  1. Transverse; as, the metalep'tic motion of a muscle.
  2. (Nat. Science.) Pertaining to, concerned in, or occurring by, metalepsy, or the substitution of one substance for another which is displaced or removed. Dana.