Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In grammar, same as tmesis.
- n. [capitalized]
- n. A genus of percoid fishes having the operculum notched and tuberculate. There are several large and beautiful species in the Indian seas, some of them upward of 3 feet long.
Cuvier, 1817. - n. [capitalized]
- n. A genus of lepidopterous insects.
- n. In surgery, a deep wound, particularly of the skull and its integuments; an incision, a fissure, or a longitudinal fracture.
Wiktionary
- n. grammar tmesis
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Gram.) Tmesis.
Etymologies
- Latin, from Ancient Greek διακοπή (diakopē, "gash, cleft, rupture"), from διά (dia, "through, across") + κοπή (kopē, "cutting") (Wiktionary)
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Lists
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Rhetorical Devices
trope, wellerism, antimetabole, syncope, open-list, accismus, abating, abbaser, abecedarian, abcisio, ablatio, abominatio and 425 more...
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phrontistery - d
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dysteleology, dyslogistic, dystectic, dysphoria, dysphonia, dystopia, dysphemism, dystocia, dyslogia, dysaesthesia, dyschromatopic, dysbulia and 624 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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deep sleep
sleep tight, sleep like a top, sopor, coulee, imbuement, yerba santa, inveteracy, filaree, bathos, spindrift, crash, puri and 14 more...
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Most Obscure Words
acatalectic, acosmism, acuate, acuminate, adscititious, adytum, akratisma, alieniloquy, allelomorph, allochiria, allodium, alnage and 620 more...
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Nakoo's list of beautiful words.
Just about any word I like at the time.
razbliuto, anaxiphilia, lipothymous, inamorata, acushla, abulia, serendipity, alexithymia, quixotic, idiosyncratic, ad nauseam, equanimity and 305 more...
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List Number One
My first list
inveigle, obfuscate, prevaricate, procrastinate, tmesis, diacope
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Rhetorical devices
How to write that killer speech.
alliteration, allusion, amplification, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, analogy, anaphora, antanagoge, antimetabole, antiphrasis, antithesis, apophasis and 48 more...
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Rhetoric
the art or science of all specialized literary uses of language in prose or verse, including the figures of speech.
the study of the effective use of language.Apophasis, bradylogia, trialogue, diastole, ho'omalimali, esprit de l'escalier, epanorthosis, Aposiopesis, metonymy, meiosis, zeugma, chiasmus and 30 more...
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