Crossword-Solution: HOMOEOTELEUTON
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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MZAEEC
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eruption
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Sentences with HOMOEOTELEUTON (5)
Under the former class we find (1) those which were involved in pure Accident, or (2) in what is termed Homoeoteleuton where lines or sentences ended with the same word or the same syllable, or (3) such as arose in writing from Uncial letters, or (4) in the confusion of vowels and diphthongs which is called Itacism, or (5) in Liturgical Influence.
Here the difference in spelling simulates a difference in sound, and a _homoeoteleuton_ takes the appearance of a rhyme.
Internal evidence may be about equal for the omission of the clause by homoeoteleuton of κλῆρον, and for its interpolation from John xix.
The corresponding Greek ὁ ὁμολογῶν τὸν υἱὸν καὶ τὸν πατέρα ἔχει (which appears to have been lost out of some copies by Homoeoteleuton), was first inserted in Beza’s Greek Testament in 1582(438), it is approved by all modern editors (Griesbach, Scholz, Lachmann, Tischendorf, Tregelles, Westcott and Hort), and, though still absent from the _textus receptus_, is unquestionably genuine.
Now, _homoeoteleuton_, though it is a sort of poor relation of rhyme, belongs to that branch of the family which more rightly bears the name of Jingle.