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Run :: Run (n.) Continued repetition on the stage; -- said of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive nights..

Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form..

Encore :: Encore (adv. / interj.) Once more; again; -- used by the auditors and spectators of plays, concerts, and other entertainments, to call for a repetition of a particular part..

Frequentative :: Frequentative (a.) Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb..

Repetition :: Repetition (n.) The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.

Repetitionary :: Repetitionary (a.) Of the nature of, or containing, repetition..

Drill :: Drill (n.) Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar..

Entreat :: Entreat (v. i.) To make an earnest petition or request.

Reiterative :: Reiterative (n.) A word formed from another, or used to form another, by repetition; as, dillydally..

Memorial :: Memorial (n.) A written representation of facts, addressed to the government, or to some branch of it, or to a society, etc., -- often accompanied with a petition..

Battology :: Battology (n.) A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing.

Encore :: Encore (n.) A call or demand (as, by continued applause) for a repetition; as, the encores were numerous..

Petitionary :: Petitionary (a.) Supplicatory; making a petition.

Antistrophe :: Antistrophe (n.) The repetition of words in an inverse order; as, the master of the servant and the servant of the master..

Repetitional :: Repetitional (a.) Alt. of Repetitionar.

Match :: Match (v.) Equality of conditions in contest or competition.

Address :: Address (v. t.) A formal communication, either written or spoken; a discourse; a speech; a formal application to any one; a petition; a formal statement on some subject or special occasion; as, an address of thanks, an address to the voters..

Palilogy :: Palilogy (n.) The repetition of a word, or part of a sentence, for the sake of greater emphasis; as, The living, the living, he shall praise thee..

Iteration :: Iteration (n.) Recital or performance a second time; repetition.

Repetition :: Repetition (n.) The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note..

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