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Circumflex   Listen
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Circumflex  v. t.  (past & past part. circumflexed; pres. part. circumflexing)  To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.






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"Circumflex" Quotes from Famous Books



... by the combination of two, the first of which had an acute and the second a grave; hence only on the last, or next to the last syllable, and only on a long vowel or a diphthong. When the last syllable has a short vowel, such a penult, if accented, takes the circumflex. ...
— Greek in a Nutshell • James Strong

... the syllables." And in his peculiarly frightful nasal tone he recommenced the execution of his ballad. Satisfied with the result he had just obtained, Schaunard congratulated himself with an exultant grimace, which mounted over his nose like a circumflex accent whenever he had occasion to be pleased with himself. But this triumphant happiness was destined to have no long duration. Eleven o'clock resounded from the neighbouring steeple. Every stroke diffused itself through the room in mocking sounds which seemed to say to the unlucky ...
— Bohemians of the Latin Quarter • Henry Murger

... have been inserted by a chirographer. It is, says Van de Velde, (the former possessor,) on the fly-leaf, "sans chiffres et reclames, en longues lignes de 27 lignes sur les pages entieres." The full stop employed is a sort of twofold, recumbent, circumflex or caret; and the most eminent watermark in the paper is a Unicorn, bearing a much more suitable antelopian weapon than is that awkwardly horizontal horn prefixed by Dr. Dibdin to the Oryx in profile which ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 • Various



Words linked to "Circumflex" :   circumflex artery of the thigh, circumflex humeral artery, circumflex artery, circumflex iliac vein, circumflex femoral vein, circumflex scapular artery, diacritic, circumflex iliac artery



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