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121Chrië — (griech., »Gebrauch«), die Ausarbeitung eines Themas nach einer eigentümlichen vorgeschriebenen Anordnung. Dieselbe muß enthalten: a) den zu behandelnden Satz nebst dem Lob des Autors (dictum cum laude autoris); b) die erläuternde Umschreibung… …
122perìfrasi — (перифраза | périphrase | Periphrase | periphrasis | perìfrasi) Выражение простого понятия с помощью описательного оборота (гр. peri phrasis); встречается, например, во французском, где тремя словами – je suis venu – передают идею, для выражения… …
123gʷhren- — To think. 1. frantic, frenetic, frenzy, phrenia, phreno ; phrenitis, from Greek phrēn, the mind, also heart, midriff, diaphragm. 2. Extended zero grade root form *gʷhrn̥ d . phrase; …
124periphrastic — periphrastically, adv. /per euh fras tik/, adj. 1. circumlocutory; roundabout. 2. Gram. noting a construction of two or more words having the same syntactic function as an inflected word, as of Mr. Smith in the son of Mr. Smith, which is… …
125Romance languages — romance1 (def. 8). [1770 80] * * * Group of related languages derived from Latin, with nearly 920 million native speakers. The major Romance languages French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian are national languages. French is probably… …
126Hisperic style — ▪ Latin writing a style of Latin writing that probably originated in the British Isles in the 7th century. It is characterized by extreme obscurity intentionally produced by periphrasis (preference for a longer phrase over a shorter,… …
127Lycophron of Chalcis — ▪ Greek poet flourished 3rd century BC Greek poet and scholar best known because of the attribution to him of the extant poem Alexandra. Invited to work in the Alexandrian library (c. 285 BC), Lycophron there wrote a treatise on… …
128speech, figure of — ▪ rhetoric any intentional deviation from literal statement or common usage that emphasizes, clarifies, or embellishes both written and spoken language. Forming an integral part of language, figures of speech are found in primitive oral… …
