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Webster 1913 Edition

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(?; 277)

Noun.

[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK], from [GREEK] to be quite silent.]

(Rhet.)

A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind;

as, “I declare to you that his conduct – but I can not speak of

that

, here

.”