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1823. March 5th Constitut. Code
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Note - a source of ambiguity.
miscollocation, uncorrespondent offences. When is it to what substance
or not . Note refus.
Ambiguity and obscurity. Modes of obviating
and excluding.
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Ambiguity &
obscurity modes
obviating
1 Exposition
2 Synomymation
For obviating and excluding, as far as may
be, the two conjunct vices and imperfections, of ambiguity
and obscurity, the nature of the case affords two
principal main remedies: viz 1. Exposition,2. Synonymation.
1. Exposition requires to be clothed in this or that
one of several different forms, according to the nature species
of word or phrase, by which a demand for this mode of
elucidation is produced.
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Exposition mode
N.B.Here introduce the account of the different
modes of exposition in use or demand: viz.
1. definition, 2. viz. where the word has a superior
genus: 2. antiphrasis, where the word has no superior
genus.
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State of language
as yet in use
In the present state of language human
discourse in a the instance of every language as yet
in use, the absence of apt words - apt, viz. to the purpose
of keeping excluded the undesirable qualities of ambiguity
and obscurity, will frequently, to every any mind,
to which the exclusion of those imperfections is an
object of solicitude, be perceptible. Here, then, comes
one occasion or cause of demand for new words,
N.B. For another, see Title - Conciseness.
2. Synonymation
Morn. Chron. 19 Octr. 1824 -
Bad collocation.
"This is an instructive lesson to all Magistrates
"desirous of redressing wrongs, which
"cannot be mistaken."
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