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EXPRESSION

Volume 4 · 104 words · 1778 Edition

in rhetoric, the elocution, diction, or choice of words in a discourse. See Language, Oratory, and Poetry.

in music. See Composition.

in painting, a natural and lively representation of the subject, or of the several objects intended to be shewn.

The expression consists chiefly in representing the human body and all its parts, in the action suitable to it: in exhibiting in the face the several passions proper to the figures, and observing the motions they impress on the external parts. See Painting, n° 15. Expression, in reading. See Reading, No. ix. x.

Expression Theatrical. See Declamation, article iv.

pharmacy. See Pharmacy, No. 221.