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Anaphora

ANAPH'ORA, n. [Gr.] 1. A figure in rhetoric, when the same word or words are repeated at the beginning of two or more succeeding verses or clauses of a sentence; as, ""Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? W...

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ANAPH'ORA, n. [Gr.]

1. A figure in rhetoric, when the same word or words are repeated at the beginning of two or more succeeding verses or clauses of a sentence; as, ""Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world?""

2. Among physicians, the discharge of blood or purulent matter by the mouth.

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