to; voice; arrange in words, clothe in words, put into words, express
by words; couch in terms; find words to express; speak by the card;
call, denominate, designate, dub. Adj. expressed &c. v.; idiomatic.
Adv. in round terms, in set terms, in good set terms, set terms; in set
phrases.
#567. Grammar.—N. grammar, accidence, syntax, praxis, punctuation;
parts of speech; jussive[obs3]; syllabication; inflection, case,
declension, conjugation; us et norma loquendi[Lat]; Lindley Murray &c.
(schoolbook) 542; correct style, philology &c. (language) 560. V.
parse, punctuate, syllabicate[obs3].
#568. Solecism.—N. solecism; bad grammar, false grammar, faulty
grammar; slip of the pen, slip of the tongue; lapsus linguae[Lat];
slipslop[obs3]; bull; barbarism, impropriety. V. use bad grammar,
faulty grammar; solecize[obs3], commit a solecism; murder the King's
English, murder the Queen's English, break Priscian's head. Adj.
ungrammatical; incorrect, inaccurate; faulty; improper, incongruous;
solecistic, solecistical[obs3].
#569. Style.—N. style, diction, phraseology, wording; manner,
strain; composition; mode of expression, choice of words; mode of
speech, literary power, ready pen, pen of a ready writer; command of
language &c. (eloquence) 582; authorship; la morgue litteraire[Fr].. V.
express by words &c. 566; write. Phr. le style c'est de l'homme
[Fr][Buffon]; "style is the dress of thoughts" [Chesterfield].
_Various Qualities of Style_
#570. Perspicuity.—N. perspicuity, perspicuousness &c.
(intelligibility) 518; plain speaking &c. (manifestation) 525;
definiteness, definition; exactness &c. 494; explicitness, lucidness.
Adj. lucid &c. (intelligible) 518; explicit &c. (manifest) 525; exact
&c. 494.
#571. Obscurity.—N. obscurity &c. (unintelligibility) 519;
involution; hard words; ambiguity &c. 520; unintelligibleness;
vagueness &c. 475, inexactness &c. 495; what d'ye call 'em &c.
(neologism) 563[obs3]; darkness of meaning. Adj. obscure &c. n.;
crabbed, involved, confused.
#572. Conciseness.—N. conciseness &c. adj.; brevity, "the soul of
wit", laconism[obs3]; Tacitus; ellipsis; syncope; abridgment &c.
(shortening) 201; compression &c. 195; epitome &c. 596;
monostich[obs3]; brunch word, portmanteau word. V. be concise &c. adj.;
condense &c. 195; abridge &c. 201; abstract &c. 596; come to the point.
Adj. concise, brief, short, terse,close; to the point, exact; neat,
compact; compressed, condensed, pointed; laconic, curt, pithy,
trenchant, summary; pregnant; compendious &c. (compendium) 596;
succinct; elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp; sententious. Adv.
concisely &c. adj.; briefly, summarily; in brief, in short, in a word,
in a few words; for shortness sake; to come to the point, to make a
long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief; it comes to
this, the long and the short of it is. Phr. brevis esse laboro obscurus
fio [Lat][Horace].
#573. 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[obs3], tautology, battology[obs3], perissology|; pleonasm,
exuberance, redundancy; thrice-told tale; prolixity; circumlocution,
ambages [obs3]; periphrase[obs3], periphrasis; roundabout phrases;