This is Rohrbach's periphrasis for Arab Nationalism, which will be master in its own house when the Turk has been removed.

This majestic world is a fine periphrasis of the Roman Empire; majestic, because the Romans ranked themselves on a footing with kings, and a world, because they called their empire Orbis Romanus; but the whole story seems to allude to Cæsar's great exemplar, Alexander, who, when he was asked whether he would run the course of the Olympic games, replied, 'Yes, if the racers were kings.

Diffuseness N. diffuseness &c adj.; amplification &c v.; dilating &c v.; verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum [Lat.]; flow of words &c (loquacity) 584; looseness. Polylogy^, tautology, battology^, perissology^; pleonasm, exuberance, redundancy; thrice-told tale; prolixity; circumlocution, ambages^; periphrase^, periphrasis; roundabout phrases; episode; expletive; pennya-lining; richness &c 577.

Does not sufficiently employ periphrasis.

With the delicate if somewhat obscure periphrasis in which legislation concerning the Negro was traditionally couched, they enacted: "That the Governor be requested to correspond with the President of the United States on the subject of purchasing lands without the limits of this State whither persons obnoxious to the laws or dangerous to the peace of society may be removed."

" "He that would lead a happy married life, First learn to rule, and then to have, a wife," say Beaumont and Fletcherand a pleasant aphorism it is tooand a wise and usefulbut with a slight alteration, a periphrasis comprehending advice not less to the purpose may be presented "He that would lead a happy wedded life, Beware of marrying a too youthful wife.

Honi soit qui mal y pense is a motto universally acted on; legs are called legs; and even the most delicate relations and complaints are spoken of and discussed without the slightest attempt at concealment or periphrasis.

* * * I believe a writer or speaker would have recourse to any periphrasis rather than say keptest, or keptst.

"The Periphrasis, or Circumlocution, is when several words are employed to express what might be expressed in fewer.

"This figure [Euphemism] is often the same with the Periphrasis.

"PERIPHRASIS, or CIRCUMLOCUTION, is the use of several words, to express what might be said in fewer.

"This figure [Euphemism] is often the same as the Periphrasis."Adam and Gould cor.

"Several other expressions of this sort now and then occur, such as the new-fangled and most uncouth solecism, 'is being done,' for the good old English idiomatic expression, 'is doing,'an absurd periphrasis, driving out a pointed and pithy turn of the English language.

He used antithesis, periphrasis, and climax with great skill.

Personification and periphrasis were their favorite mannerisms: Collins's Odes were largely addressed to abstractions, such as Fear, Pity, Liberty, Mercy and Simplicity.

Throughout the Colonial Conference of 1907 statesmen and leader writers tried every expedient of periphrasis and allusion to avoid hurting any one's feelings even by using such a term as 'British Empire.'

For the sake of clearness and to avoid burdening the text with too much periphrasis, I have throughout referred to Krishna as such.

A similar use of periphrasis occurs in Anglo-Saxon kennings ('world-candle' for sun, 'battle-adders' for arrows).

I should set forth simply, and without periphrasis, our grievances and our resolution to have justice.

Let us supply its place by a periphrasis.

It is the same with periphrasis.

While simple-hearted neighbors Chat of the 'early dead,' We, prone to periphrasis, Remark that birds have fled!

While simple-hearted neighbors Chat of the 'early dead,' We, prone to periphrasis, Remark that birds have fled!

I call him a poet to avoid periphrasis.

To have called a bowstring a bowstring was out of the question; and Racine, with triumphant art, has managed to introduce the periphrasis in such a way that it exactly expresses the state of mind of the Sultana.