Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for POL-Y-SYN'DE-TON
POL'Y-SYL-LA-BLEPOL-Y-TECH'NIC
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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