Figures - Law Dictionary Search Results
Idiophanous
Exhibiting interference figures without the aid of a polariscope as certain crystals
Grotesque
Like the figures found in ancient grottoes grottolike
Epanadiplosis
A figure by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence
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Euphemism
A figure in which a harsh or indelicate word or expression is softened a way of describing an offensive thing
Erotesis
A figure of speech by which a strong affirmation of the contrary is implied under the form of an earnest
Epizeuxis
A figure by which a word is repeated with vehemence or emphasis as in the following lines
Epitrope
A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one to do what he proposes to
Epistrophe
A figure in which successive clauses end with the same word or affirmation e g ldquoAre they Hebrews so am
Epiploce
A figure by which one striking circumstance is added in due gradation to another climax e g ldquoHe not only
Epiplexis
A figure by which a person seeks to convince and move by an elegant kind of upbraiding
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