more, or leave more to the thoughts to supply. — Luke i. 17, zmorpz^oi xophiog — zroi/xocot Kvp/w Xobv 'x.arz6x,zvu6/xzvov.
Asyndeton is also, I. when a word which ought to have been put by Anaphora (see above) is omitted ; e.g. — 1 Cor. xiii. 4, dyorrri [xo-/.po&v;xz7, yjr}6rzbzror 57 dyorrri ov fyXoT. Before yjpr\6rzvzroi the word a yanri might have been expected to be repeated. — II. when a con- junction is even but once wanting from the beginning of a sentence : e.g. — John xix. 12, era; 6 [3o6iX'zo suvrbv ero/w v. The causal conjunction, For, is wanting. Luther translates, denn wer sich zum Konige. — Gal. iii. 13, Xpicrog r^xog e%qy6pa,<re — where Luther supplies the adversative, Aber ; as also in Col. iii. 4. — 1 Tim. i. 17 is an instance of Asyndeton , which greatly becomes the apostle’s ardour. See the Gnom.
CATACHRESIS is one of the five affections of Tropes, and is commonly applied, among masters of the rhetorical art, to a some- what harsh transference of a word from its strict signification to one alien to it. [Ernestt In Rhet. p. ii. ch. 2, p. 164. Comp. Kin- derling’s Grundsatze der Beredsamkeit , Th. 2, § 117.] In a more general sense, for the most part Catachresis is also applied to a certain kind of abuse of a word , when it denotes something akin to the thing strictly signified ; for terms are not always attributed altogether strictly to the things , but in such a way as to correspond at least in some manner to the thing to which they are applied [Flacius’ Clavis Script. P. ii. p. m. 221] : e.g. — Rom. iii. 27, bid vbfLov/iricrzuc- an ap- propriate Catachresis of the term Law. — Gal. iii. 8, rrpozvriyyzXwaro rip 'a(3 podfi, the verb approaching to a Catachresis most sweetly. To Abraham, before the times of the Gospel , the Gospel was preached. —
1 Thess. iv. 9, ov yjpzi ov eyo/nev ypa(pziv b/x7v* abroi yap b/xz 7g Ozobibaxroi hrs. The word taught has in it a kind of Catachresis , so as that it may be opposed to the act of writing. The Gnom. on this passage. — Add to these instances the further definition of the Gnom. [on Luke xvi. 8, r'ov olxovo/xov rrjg ddi7tiag~\ : u It is a frequent, and often a sweet and noble Catachresis, whereby a term expressing a thing not good is nevertheless employed in a good sense, there being no other more suitable term extant. Such are oXoyov , that which is not con- sidered : dyupi6rov , that for which no suitable return of gratitude can be repaid. Such instances also as z^zernfizv varava pxav and hbXqaa,
2 Cor. v. 13, xi. 8 ; and what is more directly in point as regards this passage, — f3ia6roi dp<rdfyv6/v, Matt. xi. 12 ; ava/dz/a, Luke xi. 8.”
CHARIENTISMUS is, when a diction, which might seem rather harsh, is as it were softened by a word that qualifies (tempers) it : as, John ix. 30, zv yap robru 6a.b/xa6r6v Z6nv. — See the Gnom. Comp. 2 Thess. iii. 10.
CHIASMUS, 6yr;fio ytaer'v, decussata oratio , dKkrfkovyja, lias its name from the Greek letter X, which is as it were the type (mould),