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‖ hendiadys Gram.|hɛnˈdaɪədɪs| [Late or med.L. hendiadys, f. the Gr. phrase ἓν διὰ δυοῖν ‘one by means of two’. The Gr. phrase is app. not found in Gr. grammarians, but is frequent in Servius on Virgil; in late MSS. of Servius, it appears latinized as endyadis, endyadys; Papias (12–13th c.) has endiadis.] A figure of speech in which a single complex idea is expressed by two words connected by a conjunction; e.g. by two substantives with and instead of an adjective and substantive.
1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 83 Hendiadis, when one thing of it selfe intire, is diversly laid open, as to say, On iron and bit he champt, for on the iron bit he champt. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xvi. (Arb.) 188 Another manner of speach when ye will seeme to make two of one..which therefore we call the figure of Twynnes, the Greekes Endiadis. 1621T. Bedford Sinne unto Death 21 Whether we..make it an Endiadis, with Bullinger [etc.]. 1871Publ. Sch. Lat. Gram. ii. v. §215 Hendiadys. 1887Clark & Wright Hamlet 123 Law and heraldry, a kind of hendiadys, meaning ‘heraldic law’, ‘jus fetiale’. |