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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

hendiadic en · ADJ

Etymology

From hendiadys + -ic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Pertaining to hendiadys.
    • Syntactically, hendiadic constructions differ from synthetonic sequences in that the latter are separate clauses, and hence are separately negatable and may have different tenses and aspects and different subjects. 2002, Joan L. Bybee, Michael Noonan, Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse, page 152: