The distinction had to be explained with much periphrasis, because the Arabic word 'Câtil' means a slayer, and is given indiscriminately to all who kill He caught my meaning sooner than I had expected Ah!'— Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6
Of which Pope makes this sweeping periphrasis --— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 574, November 3, 1832 Title
The distinction had to be explained with much periphrasis, because the Arabic word 'Câtil' means a slayer, and is given indiscriminately to all who kill.— Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6
Their construction is simple: anything in Nature you please is described by a poetical periphrasis, and you are asked what it is.— Modern Mythology
One is reminded by Mr. Saintsbury's summary of many features which we have observed in the English academicism of the eighteenth century; the impoverished vocabulary, _e. g._, which makes itself evident in the annotations on the text of Spenser and other old authors; the horror of common terms, and the constant abuse of the periphrasis -- the "gelid cistern," the "stercoraceous heap," the— A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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