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ANACOLUTHON (Gr. for " not following on ") , a grammatical See also: term, given to a defectively constructed See also: sentence which does not run on as a continuous whole; this may occur either, in a text, by some corruption, or, in the See also: case of a writer or See also: speaker, simply through his forgetting the way in which he started
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In the case of a See also: man who is full of his subject, or who is carried along by the passion of the moment, such inconsequents are very See also: apt to occur
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Of Niebuhr it is told that his oral lectures consisted almost entirely of anacoluthic constructions
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To this kind of licence some See also: languages, as See also: Greek and See also: English, readily lend themselves; while the grammatical rigidity of others, as Latin and French, admits of it but sparingly
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In See also: Herodotus, See also: Thucydides, See also: Aeschylus, Pindar and See also: Plato, abundant specimens are to be found; and the same is true of the writers of the Elizabethan age in English
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The following is an example:—" And he charged him to tell no man; but go show thyself," &c
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(See also: Luke v
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14)
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