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- noun rhetoric A blending of two sentences through a common word which has two syntactic functions, one for each of the sentence. The word common to both sentences is often a predicate object in the first and a subject in the second.
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek genitive form of ἀπόκοινός (apokoinos), from ἀπό (apo) + κοινός (koinos, "in common")
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