A pleonasm oft is heard
To strengthen speech by word on word.
Plocē. Gr. plokē, a twining or folding. A twining or folding of a foregiven name, of one meaning the same name, in another; as, ‘Then Edwin was Edwin (or himself) again.’ Worthy of himself. ‘Coal is now coal,’ i.e. scarce and costly.
By plocē you inweave a name
Once more with meaning not the same.
Plural (number). The somely (number).
Polyptoton. Gr. poly, many; ptotos, case. The inbringing of fellow stem-words or root-words in sundry cases or ways:—‘He, friendless once, befriended friends.’
Posterity. Afterkin.
Postposition. A hinder case-word, a case-word put after the thing-name; as, in Hindustani, panee-main, water in; panee-sae, water from; panee-ko, water to. Showing the source of case-endings.
Potential (mood). L. potentia, might, power. Mayly.
Predicate. The wording of the time-taking; as, ‘John walked twenty miles.’
Prefix. A fore-eking, a forewordling; as, be-set, for-give, out-run.