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Definition of Metaplasms
1. metaplasm [n] - See also: metaplasm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metaplasms
Literary usage of Metaplasms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Greek Grammar for the Use of High Schools and Universities by Philipp Buttmann, Alexander Buttmann, Edward Robinson (1851)
"Some such forms can hardly be considered as metaplasms ; since their presupposed
Norn, is for us entirely obsolete. ..."
2. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1908)
"The metaplasms which follow, as purely verbal, may be claimed by the elder sister,
but the schemata and the ..."
3. An Encyclopedist of the Dark Ages: Isidore of Seville by Ernest Brehaut (1912)
"... analogy, etymology, glosses, synonyms, barbarisms, solecisms, [other] faults,
metaplasms, schemata, tropes, prose, metres, fables, histories. Chapter 6. ..."
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