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with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems. His diction blazes up into a sudden explosion of prophetic grandeur. De Quincey.

A lexicographer. [R.]

use to ascertain or illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated in time the materials of a dictionary. Johnson.

The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination. "His addiction was to courses vain." Shak.

fectionate invocation of happiness. So saying, he arose; whom Adam thus Followed with benediction. Milton. Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her. Longfellow. Specifically:

A book of benedictions.

A collected series of benedictions. The benedictionary of Bishop Athelwold. G. Gurton's Needle.

n; contrary declaration; gainsaying. His fair demands Shall be accomplished without contradiction. Shak.

Contradictory; inconsistent; opposing. [R.] Milton.

Consisting not in words, but in realities. [Obs.] Of these extradictionary and real fallacies, Aristotle and logicians make in number six. Sir T. Browne.

Declaration; proclamation; public notice or appointment. [Obs.] "Indiction of a war." Bacon. Secular princes did use to indict, or permit the indiction of, synods of bishops. Jer. Taylor.

ion; prohibiting decree; curse; interdict. The truest issue of thy throne By his own interdiction stands accurst. Shak.

s; as, certain suits or actions, or the cognizance of certain crimes, are within the jurisdiction of a particular court, that is, within the limits of its authority or commission.

Of or pertaining to jurisdiction; as jurisdictional rights. Barrow.

f evil against some one; a cursing; imprecation; a curse or execration; -- opposed to benediction. No malediction falls from his tongue. Longfellow.

The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy. The predictions of cold and long winters. Bacon.

Prophetic; prognostic. [R.]

of which contradicts the other; as, to be and not to be at the same time is a self-contradiction.

A farewell; a bidding farewell. Donne.

ment, (Law), plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.