Tmesis

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:50:06

Tme"sis (?), n. [L., from Gr. a cutting, fr. to cut.] Gram.

The separation of the parts of a compound word by the intervention of one or more words; as, in what place soever, for whatsoever place.

 

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