paragoge (paragoje)

[= F. Sp. Pg. It. paragoge, and ectasis. paragogic (par-a-goj'ik), a. [= F. paragogique =Pg. It. paragogico; as paragoge + -ic.] Pertaining to or of the nature of paragoge; that lengthens a word by the addition of one or more final sounds or letters. Carlyle. Spenser, F. Q., III. x. 35. Their Valley, walled with bald Hills before,... Is now an Eden, and th' All-circling Sun, For fruit full beauty, sees no Paragon . Bards tell of many wemen valorous, Which have full many feats adventurous Performd, in para gone of proudest men. But never let th' ensample of the bad Offend the good; for good, by para gone Of evill, may more notably be rad. new system of sizes. paragraphist paragram (par'a-gram), n. [ describes two or three kinds of puns, which he calls para grams. Aristotle, in the eleventh chapter of his book of rhetorick, Add is on , Spectator, No. 61. paragrammatist (par-a-gram'a-tist), n. [ para gramma ( t- ) (see paragram ) + -ist.] A punster. A country school-master of my acquaintance told me once that he had been in company with a gentleman whom he looked upon to be the greatest paragrammatist among the moderns. Add is on, Spectator, No. 61.