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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In rhetoric, minute and detailed description.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A minute and tedious discourse on trifling things.

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  • noun A minute and tedious discourse on trifling things.
  • noun crystallography

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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  • A minute and tedious discourse on trivial matters.

    May 12, 2008