Definition for POL-Y-SYN'DE-TON

POL-Y-SYN'DE-TON, n. [Gr. πολυσυνδετος; πολυς, many, and συνδετος, connecting.]

A figure of rhetoric by which the copulative is often repeated; as, “we have ships and men and money and stores.”

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