It is distinct from a merism, which is a reference to a whole by an enumeration of parts.

Their personal property could formerly be disposed of by a testament, hence the hallowed legal merism last will and testament.

In rhetoric and law, a merism is a figure of speech by which a single thing is referred to by a conventional phrase that enumerates several of its parts, or which lists several synonyms for the same thing.

This would be a visual parallel with the literary device of merism, used by the Sumerians, in which the totality of a situation was described through the pairing of opposite concepts.

In biology, a merism is a repetition of similar parts in the structure of an organism ( Bateson 1894 ).

The two parts of the legal merism " Last Will and Testament " at one time referred to two documents, enforced in two separate courts: the will disposed of a decedent's real property while the testament disposed of chattels.

Referring to the incident, Black stated in an interview: " I heard later that he's famously cold, and it wasn't just me that he despises, but the whole world.

Referring to this, a contemporary philosopher, Godfrey of Fontaines mentioned him as the most renowned theologian of the whole city ( qui modo melior de totâ villâ in omnibus reputatur ), suggesting he might have been in Paris during this period before going back to Rome.

Referring to his dismissal after the vote, he commented, " he only real issue I think this all stems from is AIDS, the whole issue surrounding the gay issue " ( Toronto Star, 22 January 1993 ).

" Referring to the argument as the "' Kalam ' cosmological argument ", Duncan asserts that it " received its fullest articulation at the hands of Muslim and Jewish exponents of Kalam (" the use of reason by believers to justify the basic metaphysical presuppositions of the faith ).

There are few direct testimonies to the language of the Cimbri: Referring to the Northern Ocean ( the Baltic or the North Sea ), Pliny the Elder states: " Philemon says that it is called Morimarusa, i. e. the Dead Sea, by the Cimbri, until the promontory of Rubea, and after that Cronium.

Referring to the Eastern Bloc, the report stated that " the Red Army's liberating role was complemented by an upsurge of the freedom-loving peoples ' liberation struggle against the fascist predators and their hirelings.

Referring to recording errors created by some faulty equipment, Harrison jokingly remarked to Lynne, " We'll bury ' em in the mix ".

* Referring to a person by an animal name, such as pig, cow, snake, chicken, donkey, ass, or bitch.

Referring to Magnus Ladulås as Magnus I is an invention not recognized by any Swedish historians today.

Referring to the floodplain as a lake may be misleading, as less than half of Lake Chad is covered by water through an entire year.

Referring to the initial testimony offered by Ike Clanton, she wrote, " Opinion is pretty divided as to the justification of the killing.

Referring to him by a code name, Barnave received his letters through an unknown similarly codenamed intermediary.

Referring to the song, the specific term " jingoism " was coined as a political label by the prominent British radical George Holyoake in a letter to the Daily News on 13 March 1878.

Referring to Clement of Alexandria, Stromata III, 2, Philip Schaff commented: " The early disappearance of the Christian agapæ may probably be attributed to the terrible abuse of the word here referred to, by the licentious Carpocratians.

Referring back to the growth of cities and that the existence of them can only persist if the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, it is important to know that agglomeration economies may also lead to congestion, pollution and other negative externalities caused by the clustering of a population of firms and people and that this may lead to diseconomies of scale.

Referring to the study performed in 2007 by Saleh Abd al-Jawad, Zionist Massacres: the Creation of the Palestinian Refugee Problem in the 1948 War, she writes that the massacres engaged Palestinian historians ' concerns relatively late, but that when ' Palestinians began to write their history, the issue of massacres inevitably became one of the relevant factors in accounting for the mass exodus.

" Referring to the negative publicity that surrounded Dr. No — in particular the article by Paul Johnson in the New Statesman entitled, " Sex, Snobbery and Sadism "— Iles was left " wondering what all the fuss is about ", noting that " there is no more sadism nor sex than is expected of the author of this kind of thriller ".

Referring to the conclusion of The Quatermass Experiment, he commented that: " It almost boils down to an editorial speech by Quatermass representing humanity, or the humane aspects of humanity.

* Referring speech by Madeleine Albright

* Referring statement by Howard Dean

" While the 5th Amendment which was applicable in D. C. lacked an equal protection clause, Warren held that While equal protection is a more explicit safeguard against discrimination, the Court recognized that Referring to the technicalities raised by the case's location in the District of Columbia, the Court held that, in light of their decision in Brown that segregation in state public schools is prohibited by the constitution, it would be

Referring to an online document by its DOI provides more stable linking than simply referring to it by its URL, because if its URL changes, the publisher need only update the metadata for the DOI to link to the new URL.

Referring to his own impending deportation from the U. S., Berkman replied that Frick had been " deported by God.

Referring to Bill C-68, John Dixon, a former advisor to Deputy Minister of Justice John C. Tait, stated that the Firearms Act was not public safety policy, but rather an election ploy by the Liberal Party of Canada intended to help defeat Prime Minister Kim Campbell.

Referring back the previous section, which focused on tactics developed during World War II, the North Vietnamese MiG-17 resorted to use of the Lufbery maneuver on occasion when cornered by faster F-4 Phantom fighters.

* Referring to the first movement of the Eroica: " To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle.

" Referring to the load carrying capacity of the estate, the Guide said the car was " capable of carrying more than some vans.

Referring to the poem as " The Red Wheelbarrow " has been frowned upon by some critics, including Neil Easterbrook, who said that it gives the text " a specifically different frame " than that which Williams originally intended.

Referring to the student-led demonstrations against the government in March and June 1988 Ne Win stated that these events indicated that some people ' don't like the government ' and ' the Party that led the government '.

Perhaps for this reason, while the Covenant service has been an invariable part of the liturgy of the British Methodist Church and its daughter churches in the Commonwealth, its use is less widespread in American Methodist denominations: Referring to the United Methodist Church, Hohenstein ( 1997 ) notes that " covenant services are seldom encountered these days ", though some American Methodist congregations do use the covenant regularly.

Referring to mnemonic methods, Verlee Williams mentions, " One such strategy is the ' loci ' method, which was developed by Simonides, a Greek poet of the fifth and sixth centuries BC " Loftus cites the foundation story of Simonides ( more or less taken from Frances Yates ) and describes some of the most basic aspects of the use of space in the art of memory.

" Referring to some of his more acrobatic colleagues, Steinberg remarked, " The more they move around, the quieter I get.

Referring to the Court ’ s recent decision in Rapanos v. United States, Thomas noted with some incredulity that while the Justices that in the instant decision " disregard the commander-in-chief ’ s wartime decisions ," they had no trouble deferring to the judgment of the Corps of Engineers in upholding the agency ’ s " wildly implausible conclusion that a storm drain is a tributary of the waters of the United States.

Referring to Britain, he says, `` We see a nation that traditionally values sovereignty above all else willing to give up its economy, placing this authority in Continental hands ''.

Referring to the above sketch of Spartan history, we find Agesilaus shining most in its first and last period, as commencing and surrendering a glorious career in Asia, and as, in extreme age, maintaining his prostrate country.

Referring to the book's original 1987 publication in a Rolling Stone review pegged to the book's republication in 2002, the critic Jon Caramanica wrote, " It might well be the most comprehensive biography ever written about a pop act while it was still in its prime.

Referring to its free-form format, the station was called " one of the last truly alternative radio stations in North America ".

Referring to the Association's involvement with the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 and its role in funding and providing legal assistance to black students ' seeking admission to the state university, the suit charged that the Association was ".

Referring to the law as a “ historic milestone ,” former HRC President Joe Solmonese said its passage represents “ the first time that we as a nation have explicitly protected the LGBT community in the law .”

Referring to what Huxley had said two days before, about after all its not signifying to him whether he was descended from a Gorilla or not, the Bp.

Referring to the main policy document in this context, the 1934 law on resettlement, a policy targeting the region of Dersim as one of its first test cases, with disastrous consequences for the local population.

" Referring to Buchman's effect on the Church, Tournier observed: " Before Buchman the Church felt its job was to teach and preach, but not to find out what was happening in people's souls.

* Parish: In Huddersfield, Originally called " The Parish Pump ", Referring to its close proximity to Huddersfield parish church.

Referring to the accompanying ion pair collection graph, it can be seen that in the " ion chamber " operating region, the collection of ion pairs is effectively constant over a range of applied voltage, as due to its relatively low electric field strength the ion chamber does not have any " multiplication effect ".

Referring to the bird as a " scorner of the ground ", he states that its music is better than all music and all poetry.