† mesozeugman.
Rhetoric. Obsolete.
A zeugma in which the word which refers to both clauses is placed between them.
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1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. Bvii Secondlye when it is set in the mi[d]des, & is called, Media iunctio, as bewtye, eyther by age decaieth, or by syckenes. [Note] Mesozeugma.
1577 H. Peacham Garden of Eloquence sig. Kiii Mesozeugma, when the common word [in a figure of speech] is put in the middle clause.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xii. 137 Mezozeugma or the Middle marcher.
1671 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) Mesozeugma (Greek), a figure of Grammatical Construction.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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n.1550- picture wire
- picture-broidered
- picture-buying
- picture-cleaner
- picture-coffin
- picture-dialect
- picture-dramatist
- picture-drawer
- picture-drawing
- picture-face
- picture-framer
- picture-frustration
- picture-gazer
- picture-hanging
- picture-hatted
- picture-hung
- picture-in-picture
- picture-like
- picture-making
- picture-painting
- picture-pasted
- picture-perfect
- picture-playwright
- picture-poem
- picture-postcardish