Adianoeta (a di a no E ta; G. "unintelligible")
An expression that has an obvious meaning and an unsuspected secret one beneath. So one says to a good friend who is also a poor novelist: "I will lose no time in reading your new book." Or, as the Foundation says to the unsuccessful applicant: "For your work, we have nothing but praise."
A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms, Second Edition, Richard A. Lanham, 1991
An expression that has an obvious meaning and an unsuspected secret one beneath. So one says to a good friend who is also a poor novelist: "I will lose no time in reading your new book." Or, as the Foundation says to the unsuccessful applicant: "For your work, we have nothing but praise."
A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms, Second Edition, Richard A. Lanham, 1991
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