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COLON . (I) (Gr. KoXov, miswritten and mispronounced as ,c Xov, the term
part
intestine
part
Greek
rhetoric a short clauselonger than the "comma ," hence a mark (:), in punctuation, used to show a break in construction greater than that marked by the semicolon (;), and less than that marked by the period or full stop. The sign is also used in psalters and the like to mark off periods for chanting. The word is applied in palaeography to a unit of measure in MSS., amounting in length to a hexameter
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