| merismus | |
| mer-is'-mus | distributio |
| the distributor | |
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The dividing of a whole into its parts. | |
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| Puttenham
provides this example. If one begins with a sentence, "The house was outrageously plucked down." One can through merismus obtain: "They first undermined the ground fills, they beat down the walls, they unfloored the lofts, they untiled it and pulled down the roof." |
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| Sources: | Day 1599 97 ("merismus," "distributio"); Putt. (1589) 230 ("merismus," "the distributor") | |
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