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1790-1826, Vol. 1 of 2;
• (enjoin)- to prescribe (a course of action) with authority or emphasis,
( ; ); Many of the bigoted clergy were
exasperated by the toleration which the empress enjoined, and they united
with the disaffected lords in a conspiracy for a revolution. — The Empire of
Russia;
alliteration^ literary
• (alliteration)- repetition of beginning sound in poetry, ( ); “He
constantly uses alliteration, assonance, repetition, and refrain. — Poets of the
South;
• (literary)- versed in or fond of literature or learning; And if the faults were
moral rather than literary, his disapproval grew in emphasis. — The Life and
Letters of Walter H Page;
ellipsis : bowdlerize = expurgate = castrate : abridge
• (ellipsis)- the omission from a sentence or other construction of one or
more words that would complete or clarify the construction, (
); "Sometimes the ellipsis is improperly applied to
nouns of different numbers: as, 'A magnificent house and gardens. '" — The
Grammar of English Grammars;
• (bowdlerize)- to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying
passages considered vulgar or objectionable, (
); The only English prose translation of which I have any knowledge is
the one in Bohn's edition of Catullus, and this, in addition to
being bowdlerized, is in a host of passages more a paraphrase than a literal
translation. — The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus;
• (expurgate)- to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed
offensive or objectionable, (
); Testament that might be expurgated in the interest of
decency, reason and science. — Shakspere, Personal Recollections;
• (castrate)- to deprive of virility or spirit; emasculate;
• to remove the testicles of (a male); geld or emasculate;
• (abridge)- to reduce or lessen in duration, scope, authority, etc.; diminish;
curtail, ( ); Power controlled
or abridged is almost always the rival and enemy of that power by which it is
controlled orabridged. — The Federalist Papers;
treatise ~ exposition > expository
• (treatise)- Obsolete a tale or narrative; The subject of the deepest