Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DI-AS'TO-LE, or DI-AS'TO-LY
DI-AS'TO-LE, or DI-AS'TO-LY, n. [Gr. διαςολη, διαςελλω; δια and ςελλω, to set, or send from.]
- Among physicians, a dilatation of the heart, auricles and arteries; opposed to systole or contraction. – Encyc.
- In grammar, the extension of a syllable; or a figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.
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