hypozeuxis

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  1. In grammar and rhetoric, a figure or construction in which, in a succession of clauses, each subject has its own verb: as, “The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever,” Isa. xl. 8. The following is another example: On the slope The sword rose, the hind fell, the herd was driven, Fire glimpsed. Tennyson, Coming of Arthur. If this supplie be made to sundrie clauses, or to one clause sundrie times iterated, and by seuerall words, so as euery clause hath his owne supplie, then it is called by the Greekes Hypozeuxis; we call him the substitute. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 138.

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  1. Late Latin, from Greek ὑπόζευξις, a subduing, a subordinate connection, from ὑποζευγνύναι, yoke under, subject, from ὑπό, under, + ζευγνύναι, yoke: see zeugma.
 

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