Definition of diction

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Diction (n.) Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems..

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Stewish :: Stewartry (n.) In Scotland, the jurisdiction of a steward; also, the lands under such jurisdiction..
Collection :: Collection (n.) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
Recantation :: Recantation (n.) The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.
Patavinity :: Patavinity (n.) The use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; -- so called from Patavium, now Padua, the place of Livy's nativity..
Indiction :: Indiction (n.) Declaration; proclamation; public notice or appointment.
Fuero :: Fuero (n.) The jurisdiction of a tribunal.
Taboo :: Taboo (n.) A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction..
Cadilesker :: Cadilesker (n.) A chief judge in the Turkish empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers..
Nonresident :: Nonresident (n.) A nonresident person; one who does not reside in the State or jurisdiction.
Prophesy :: Prophesy (v. i.) To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come.
Thesaurus :: Thesaurus (n.) A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia..
Subaid :: Subashship (n.) The office or jurisdiction of a subahdar.
Contradictions :: Contradictions (a.) Filled with contradictions; inconsistent.
Bishopdom :: Bishopdom (n.) Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate.
Catholicos :: Catholicos (n.) The spiritual head of the Armenian church, who resides at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis..
Seigniory :: Seigniory (n.) The territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.
Etymologicon :: Etymologicon (n.) An etymological dictionary or manual.
Regency :: Regency (a.) Especially, the office, jurisdiction, or dominion of a regent or vicarious ruler, or of a body of regents; deputed or vicarious government..
Harmonize :: Harmonize (v. t.) To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show the agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of.
Anathema :: Anathema (n.) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
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