BY that Forest of Rhetoric is awesome. I've visited that page before and I always end up spending a long time browsing there. Tonight I learned that "dialysis" is a rhetorical term:

dialysis

di-al'-i-sis from Gk. dia, "through," "asunder"
and lyein, "to loose"
Also sp. dialisis
divisio
the dismembrer


(1) To spell out alternatives, or to present either-or arguments that lead to a conclusion.
(2) A synonym for asyndeton.


Getting back to the subject, here's my meager trow onto the pitch:

Just when I thought that establishing the etymology of this term would be a sticky wicket, sticky wicket's origins were made clear.

Last edited by Alex Williams; 05/03/2006 1:31 PM.