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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 268 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENDIADYS , the name adopted from the Gr. i'v &d beoiv (" one by means of two ") for a rhetorical figure, in which two words connected by a copulative See also:

conjunction are used of a single See also:idea; usually the figure takes the See also:form of two substantives instead of a substantive and See also:adjective, as in the classical example pateris libamus et auro (See also:Virgil, Georgics, ii..

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