Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ancient prosody:
- noun The unit of time; a primary time, or mora. See
time . - noun One of the two divisions of a foot, known as thesis and arsis, or an analogous division of a measure or colon—for instance, .
- noun In paleography, a mark, such as the coronis, asterisk, diple, etc., used to indicate metrical and other divisions.
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Examples
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The word semeion means "sign", an appeal to intelligence, and expresses the purpose or final cause of the miracle.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Now we come to "semeion," of which Mr. Wilson says, "This is a Greek word that is not to be found in the English language.
Other Comment Jameson, Barbara 1965
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For a Druze like Jumblatt to signal a change like this is a semeion that approaches a tekmerion, and signals a huge sea change going on under the radar.
There Are Some Lines You Just Don’t Cross « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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As I said, he is an interesting semeion, or should one have put it more simply as weathercock instead? abraham
There Are Some Lines You Just Don’t Cross « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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Semiotic or semiotics: paraphrasing here from the Greek semeiotikos observant of signs, from semeiousthai to interpret signs, from semeion sign; akin to Greek semu sign - more at SEMANTIC: a general philosophical theory of signs and symbols that deals esp. with their function in both artifically constructed and natural languages and comprises syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics.
Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008
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For according to the most refined theory of Stoic logicians, a sign in the proper technical sense (semeion) was seen as the abstract propositional content of a sentence insofar it is functioning as the antecedent in a true implication by means of which a hitherto unknown truth is revealed.
Medieval Semiotics Meier-Oeser, Stephan 2003
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Now on the other hand, the English iambic tetrameter is a hesitating, loose, capricious form, always in danger of having its opening semeion chopped off, or of being diluted by a recurrent trimeter, or of developing a cadential lilt.
The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov Wilson, Edmund 1965
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In the vocabulary of this system, a syllable becomes a "semeion."
The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov Wilson, Edmund 1965
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The word is (...) (semeion) a sign; not (...) (teras) wonder.
Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909
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Mk. 8: 12 amen lego humin, ei dothesetai te genea taute semeion.
A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905
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