200106334L June 6, 2001 ************** ************** ************** Dear **************: Thank you for your letter concerning Texas taxes. You state that your company is a national service provider for the food and beverage, restaurant, and convenience store equipment industry.
zeugma. n. 1. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a figure of speech in which a word is used to modify or govern two or more words although appropriate to only one of them or making a different sense with each, as in the sentence Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave (Charles Dickens).
(1) A moralizing maxim. The following are examples of senientiae: âOne should neither speak nor act in moments of angerâ (Pythagoras); âJustice is the achievement of the chosen few, but truthfulness is the duty of every decent manâ (V. O. Kliuchevskii). A variant of the sententia is the laconic expression called a gnome. German and French literature often use the term sententia to denote any apothegm, gnome, or pointed memorable saying. (2) In juridical literature, an obsolete term formerly used to denote a judicial decision or sentence. 1  Facebook.