While reading the introduction to Julius Caesar (Arden), I came across a word entirely foreign to me, "hendiadys".
From the OED:A figure of speech in which a single complex idea is expressed by two words connected by a conjunction; e.g. by two substantives with and instead of an adjective and substantive.
1586 A. DAY Eng. Secretary II. (1625) 83 Hendiadis, when one thing of it selfe intire, is diversly laid open, as to say, On iron and bit he champt, for on the iron bit he champt. 1589 PUTTENHAM Eng. Poesie III. xvi. (Arb.) 188 Another manner of speach when ye will seeme to make two of one..which therefore we call the figure of Twynnes, the Greekes Endiadis.
I love learning new things.
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