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Definition of Antanaclasis
1. n. A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.
Medical Definition of Antanaclasis
1. A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft. A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc. Origin: Gr.; + a bending back and breaking. See Anaclastic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)