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Report :: Report (v. t.) To make minutes of, as a speech, or the doings of a public body; to write down from the lips of a speaker..

Pleonasm :: Pleonasm (n.) Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes..

Assumpsit :: Assumpsit (n.) An action to recover damages for a breach or nonperformance of a contract or promise, express or implied, oral or in writing not under seal. Common or indebitatus assumpsit is brought for the most part on an implied promise. Special assumpsit is founded on an express promise or undertaking..

Dash :: Dash (n.) A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis..

Sponge :: Sponge (v. t.) To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of..

Panegyrist :: Panegyrist (n.) One who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking..

Cap :: Cap (n.) A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal cap..

Grammar :: Grammar (n.) The art of speaking or writing with correctness or according to established usage; speech considered with regard to the rules of a grammar.

Publication :: Publication (n.) The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts..

Exaeresis :: Exaeresis (n.) In old writers, the operations concerned in the removal of parts of the body..

Blot :: Blot (v. t.) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses..

Elohist :: Elohist (n.) The writer, or one of the writers, of the passages of the Old Testament, notably those of Elohim instead of Jehovah, as the name of the Supreme Being; -- distinguished from Jehovist..

Volume :: Volume (n.) A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients..

Deskwork :: Deskwork (n.) Work done at a desk, as by a clerk or writer..

Subjunctive :: Subjunctive (a.) Subjoined or added to something before said or written.

Allocatur :: Allocatur (n.) Allowed. The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer..

Dramatist :: Dramatist (n.) The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.

Ionic :: Ionic (a.) Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital..

Address :: Address (v.) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to; to accost..

Retrenchment :: Retrenchment (n.) The act or process of retrenching; as, the retrenchment of words in a writing..

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