Word Meanings - POLYSYNDETON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A figure by which the conjunction is often repeated, as in the sentence, "We have ships and men and money and stores." Opposed to asyndeton.
Related words: (words related to POLYSYNDETON)
- REPEAT
To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn. - REPEATEDLY
More than once; again and again; indefinitely. - OPPOSABILITY
The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace. - OPPOSITIONIST
One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed. - MONEYER
1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. 2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges. - OPPOSITIVE
Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall. - OPPOSELESS
Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - REPEATER
One who, or that which, repeats. Specifically: A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters. A repeating firearm. An instrument for resending a telegraphic message - MONEYAGE
1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage. - CONJUNCTIONAL
Relating to a conjunction. - OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle. - OFTENNESS
Frequency. Hooker. - MONEY
fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made, Mind, and cf. 1. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - SHIPSHAPE
Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly. Even then she expressed her scorn for the lubbery executioner's mode of tying a knot, and did it herself in a shipshape orthodox manner. De Quincey. Keep everything shipshape, for - SENTENCER
One who pronounced a sentence or condemnation. - OFTEN
Frequently; many times; not seldom. - OPPOSABLE
1. Capable of being opposed or resisted. 2. Capable of being placed opposite something else; as, the thumb is opposable to the forefinger. - MONEYED
1. Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey men. Bacon. 2. Converted into money; coined. If exportation will not balance importation, away must your silver go again, whether moneyed or not moneyed. Locke. 3. Consisting - CONFIGURE
To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley. - WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.