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diasyrm Rhet.|ˈdaɪəsɜːm|
[ad. Gr. διασυρµός, Latinized diasyrmus, disparagement, ridicule, the rhetorical figure expressing this, f. διασύρειν to disparage, ridicule, f. διά through, apart + σύρειν to drag.]
A figure of rhetoric expressing disparagement or ridicule.
1678Phillips, Diasyrmus (Grk.), a figure in Rhetorick, in which we elevate any person or thing by way of derision. 1757W. Dodd Beauties Shaks. I. 97 (Jod.) We have a beautiful passage in Richard the Third (act i, sc. i) on this topick in that fine diasyrm he speaks on himself. |