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Webster 1913 Edition

Diallage

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Di-al′la-ge

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Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] interchange, change, fr. [GREEK] to interchange.]
(Rhet.)
A figure by which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point.
Smart.

Di′al-lage

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Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK] change, alluding to the change and inequality of luster between the natural joints of the mineral.]
(Min.)
A dark green or bronze-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks.

Webster 1828 Edition

Diallage

DIALLAGE

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Noun.
[Gr., difference, alluding to the difference of luster between its natural joints.] A mineral, the smaragdite of Saussure, of a lamellar or foliated structure. Its subspecies are green diallage, metalloidal diallage and bronzite. The metalloidal subspecies is called schillersteing, or shiller spar.

Definition 2024

diallage

diallage

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: dī-ălʹə-jē, IPA(key): /daɪˈælədʒi/

Noun

diallage ‎(plural diallages)

  1. A figure of speech in which multiple arguments are brought to bear on a single point
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  2. (mineralogy) A green form of pyroxene.

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Etymology

New Latin , from Ancient Greek διαλλαγή ‎(diallagḗ, “interchange”).

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