ASYNDETON, in grammar, a figure which omits the conjunctions in a sentence. As in veni, vidi, vici, where et is left out: or in that of Cicero concerning Catiline, abijt, except, evasit, stupit: or in that verse of Virgil,
Ferte citi flammas, date vela, impellite remos.
Asyndeton stands opposed to polysyndeton, where the copulatives are multiplied.