Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Metaleptic \Met`a*lep"tic\, a. [Gr. ?]
   1. Of or pertaining to a metalepsis.

   2. Transverse; as, the metaleptic motion of a muscle.

   3. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, concerned in, or occurring by,
      metalepsy.