syncope

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I'm sure he'd never wither the roof of mumblings with a medial syncope, nor slight the vulgarly consonantal i in millionaire, but give it the same dieretic value it enjoys in idiom.

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  1. noun Grammar The shortening of a word by omission of a sound, letter, or syllable from the middle of the word; for example, bos'n for boatswain.
  2. noun Pathology A brief loss of consciousness caused by a temporary deficiency of oxygen in the brain; a swoon. See Synonyms at blackout.

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  • I'm sure he'd never wither the roof of mumblings with a medial syncope, nor slight the vulgarly consonantal i in millionaire, but give it the same dieretic value it enjoys in idiom. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 3
  • Sounds screwy -- never heard of such a thing -- but it acts like an energy-converter. —  First Lensman
  • He glanced over at her and grinned in his usual dynamic irresistibly powerful way. —  Dance Of Desire
  • Death, he said, was the result of "syncope," or a dramatic drop in blood pressure. —  Portrait of a Killer
  • This syncope is a temporary palsy, or apoplexy, which ceases after a time, the muscles recovering their power of being excited into action by the efforts of volition; as the eye in the circumstance above mentioned recovers in a little time its power of seeing objects in a gloomy room; which were invisible immediately after coming out of a stronger light. —  Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
 

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  1. Middle English sincopis, from sincopene, from Late Latin syncopēn, accusative of syncopē, from Greek sunkopē, from sunkoptein, to cut short : sun-, syn- + koptein, to strike.

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  1. = French syncope = Spanish síncope, síncopa = Portuguese syncope, syncopa = Italian sincope, sincopa, from Latin syncope, syncopa, = Greek συγκοπή, a cutting short, the contraction of a word by the omission of one or more letters, a swoon, from συγκόπτειν, cut short, abridge, from σύν, together, + κόπτειν, strike, cut.
 

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