(rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts
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(rhetoric) the introductory section of an oration or discourse
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.(rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.(rhetoric) exhortation; admonition.; "In Deuteronomy it is often impossible to separate parenesis from history."
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.(rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration; "he summarized his main points in his peroration"
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.(rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.(rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is given less importance by the name given it than it merits.; "The last and perhaps t…
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.an argument offered in opposition to another argument
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered; "he liked to make his points with rhetorical que…
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greate…
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.exact opposite; "his theory is the antithesis of mine"
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.inversion in the second of two parallel phrases
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity"
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.similarity by virtue of corresponding
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greate…
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
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A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: series, subjects, single, predicate.Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: series, subjects, single, predicate.To exist in a certain manner or relation, -- whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain pre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: series, subjects, single, predicate.A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: series, subjects, single, predicate.To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with a predicate; as, to come untied.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: series, subjects, single, predicate.A so-called immediate inference which consists in denying the original subject of the contradictory predicate; e.g.: Every S is P; the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: series, subjects, single, predicate.A proposition which arises from interchanging the terms of another, as by putting the predicate for the subject, and the subject for t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: series, subjects, single, predicate.The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: series, subjects, single, predicate.To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: series, subjects, single, predicate.The word which unites the subject and predicate.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: series, subjects, single, predicate.Joining subject and predicate; copulative.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: series, subjects, single, predicate.That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: series, subjects, single, predicate.
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