Meanings (ES + gloss)
adynaton
A form of hyperbole that uses exaggeration so magnified as to express impossibility; an instance of such hyperbole.
In the realm of a very exclusive art adynata of this type and others are taken up again by Arnaut Daniel, the great and distant master of Dante [Alighieri].
In this little book, Dr. Sharp attempts to revive and to explain a great number of hard words which were formerly employed by teachers of rhetoric: presenting chapters intituled af…
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