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periphrasis

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PERIPHRASIS. Circumlocution; the use of other words to express the sense of one.
     2. Some words are so technical in their meaning that in charging offences in indictments they must be used or the indictment will not be sustained; for example, an indictment for treason must contain the word traitorously; (q.v.) an indictment for burglary, burglariously; ( q.v.) and feloniously (q.v.) must be introduced into every indictment for felony. 1 Chitty's Cr. Law, 242; 3 Inst. 15; Carth. 319; 2 Hale, P. C. 172; 184;, 4 Bl. Com. 307; Hawk B. 2, c. 25, s. 55; 1 East P. C. 115; Bac. Ab. Indictment, G 1; Com. ]Dig. Indictment, G 6 Cro. C. C. 37.



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The Shepheardes Calender, Dialogue, and Periphrasis.
"The death of the 'new Poete': Virgilian ruin and Ciceronian ... by Helfer, Rebeca / Renaissance Quarterly
Examiners will have to pay attention to the characteristics of speech delivery that in classical Rhetoric were dealt with in the "action" stage of constructing speech (Spang: 1979): speech tempo, hesitation, false starts, "cul-de sacs", repetition, periphrasis, silence .
The common European framework of reference and the assessment of oral ... by Larrea, J. Ignacio Bermejo / Academic Exchange Quarterly
Beyond the explicit use of the adjectives "hidden" and "concealed," Colonna's writing similarly initially conceals meaning within rhetorical ornament, specifically metaphor, simile (imago), comparison (similitudo), and periphrasis (circumitio).
The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, image, text, and vernacular poetics * by Trippe, Rosemary / Renaissance Quarterly
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