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reduplication|rɪdjuːplɪˈkeɪʃən|
[ad. late L. reduplicātiōn-em: see reduplicate v. and -ation, and cf. F. réduplication (1520).]
†1. The action of doubling or folding. Obs.—1
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 210 The Greekes name this figure Symploche, the Latins Complexio, perchaunce for that he seemes to hold in and to wrap vp the verses by reduplication, so as nothing can fall out.
b. A double or fold. rare. Cf. reduplicature.
1698Tyson in Phil. Trans. XX. 115 A Reduplication of the Skin inwards, which forms a Bag. 1881Mivart Cat 296 The cartilage of the pinna is large and complexly-shaped, with a reduplication in front.
2. The action of making or becoming double or two-fold; repetition; also, an instance of this, a double or counterpart.
1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. Ad Sect. ix. §2 When Jesus by reduplication of his desire, fortifying it with a Command [etc.]. 1659H. More Immort. Soul i. ii. Ax. 9 To both these may be apply'd the termes of Reduplication and Saturation: The former, when Essence or Substance is but once redoubled into it self, or into another. 1812G. Chalmers Dom. Econ. Gt. Brit. 475 We have seen the reduplications of populousness, in both our Isles. 1841L. Hunt Seer (1864) 86 A crowd is but the reduplication of ourselves. 1876J. S. Bristowe Th. & Pract. Med. (1878) 509 There is frequently a tendency,..either to disregard the true second sound, or to look upon it as a mere reduplication.
b. Repetition of a word (or phrase). † Also spec. (see quot. 1656).
a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. Pref. (1622) A viij b, Marke heere againe, how the Prophet resumeth his first admiration, by a Poeticall Epanalepsis or reduplication. 1656Blount Glossogr., Reduplication..is a figure in Rhetoric, when the same word that ends one part of a verse or sentence, is repeated in that which follows. a1680Charnock Attrib. God (1834) II. 685 Intimating the greatness of their sins by the reduplication of the word. 1729Pope Dunc. iii. 266 note, Which reduplication of the word gives a much stronger emphasis to Violante's concern. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 537/2 What meaneth that reduplication, ‘and He shall rule on His Throne’, but that [etc.].
c. Path. (See quot. and cf. redoublement 2.)
1858Mayne Expos. Lex., Reduplication,..applied to the paroxysms of ague of a double type.
†3. The repetition of a term with a limiting or defining force; hence, the addition of some limiting term to one already used, or the sense of a term as thus limited. Obs.
1620T. Granger Div. Logike 279 Euery good thing is to be desired, aas it is good. marg., aThis is called reduplication, or the redoubling of a terme. 1656Jeanes Fuln. Christ 149 Yet the word considered, as Christ, as incarnate, as subsisting in two natures, may under this reduplication be said to be after the manhood, and to depend upon it. 1678Gale Crt. Gentiles III. 101 God doth not deliver up men to judicial hardnesse simply as hardnesse, under that reduplication. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., Reduplication, in logic, is a kind of condition expressed in a proposition, indicating or assigning the manner wherein the predicate is attributed to the subject.
4. Gram. Repetition of a syllable or letter, esp. in the case of verbal forms (chiefly the perfect tense) in Greek and other Indo-European languages.
Attic reduplication, the form exemplified in Gr. ἀκήκοα from ἀκουω, ἤγαγον from ἄγω.
1774J. Bryant Mythol. I. 36 They seem to have sometimes used this term with a reduplication: for we read of a city in Canaan called Sansanah. 1832Lee Hebr. Gram. (ed. 2) vii. 112 These are nouns which are thought to have an intensitive signification, without presenting any reduplication either in the vowels or consonants. 1839Penny Cycl. XIII. 314/1 The third conjugation..is characterized by the reduplication of the first letter of the verb with a short vowel. 1869Farrar Fam. Speech ii. (1873) 74 It also retained the reduplication of the perfect.
attrib.1894Lindsay Latin Lang. viii. §39. 494, ĕ being the usual Reduplication-vowel. Ibid. §43. 503 The older writers used ĕ in the Reduplication-syllable.
b. A word-form produced by repetition of a syllable.
1862D. Wilson Preh. Man iv. (1865) 65 They are traceable in many reduplications, and influence the choice of vowel-sounds in a large class of words. 1868Gladstone Juv. Mundi xiii. (1869) 489 Tartaros is taken to be the reduplication of the ‘tar’ in ‘tarik’.
†5. Exact reproduction. Obs. rare—1.
1794Mathias Purs. Lit. (1798) 137 The uniform and constant reduplication of the old spelling of every word in Mr. Ireland's new Volume by Shakspeare.
†6. The action of doubling a second time.
1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 24 Reduplication..or Multiplication by 4 is to double the Duplication. |