recurrence, succession, run; battology, tautology; monotony,
tautophony; rhythm &c 138; diffuseness, pleonasm, redundancy.
chimes, repetend, echo, ritornello†, burden of a song, refrain;
rehearsal; rechauffe [Fr.], rifacimento [It], recapitulation.
cuckoo &c (imitation) 19; reverberation &c 408; drumming &c (roll)
407; renewal &c (restoration) 660.
twice-told tale; old story, old song; second edition, new edition;
reappearance, reproduction, recursion [Comp.]; periodicity &c 138.
V. repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp
upon, battologize†, hammer, redouble.
recur, revert, return, reappear, recurse [Comp.]; renew &c
(restore) 660.
rehearse; do over again, say over again; ring the changes on; harp
on the same string; din in the ear, drum in the ear; conjugate in all
its moods tenses and inflexions†, begin again, go over the same ground,
go the same round, never hear the last of; resume, return to,
recapitulate, reword.
Adj. repeated &c v.; repetitional†, repetitionary†; recurrent,
recurring; ever recurring, thick coming; frequent, incessant;
redundant, pleonastic.
monotonous, harping, iterative, recursive [Comp.], unvaried;
mocking, chiming; retold; aforesaid, aforenamed†; above-mentioned,
above-said; habitual &c 613; another.
Adv. repeatedly, often, again, anew, over again, afresh, once more;
ding-dong, ditto, encore, de novo, bis†, da capo [It].
again and again; over and over, over and over again; recursively
[Comp.]; many times over; time and again, time after time; year after
year; day by day &c; many times, several times, a number of times; many
a time, full many a time; frequently &c 136.
Phr. ecce iterum Crispinus [Lat.]; toujours perdrix [Fr.]; cut and come
again [Crabbe]; tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow [Macbeth];
cantilenam eandem canis [Lat.] [Terence]; nullum est jam dictum quod
non dictum sit prius [Lat.] [Terence].