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, abit, excescit, evasit, erupit: or in that verse of Virgil,

Ferte cito flammas, date vela, impellite remos.

Asyndeton stands opposed to polysyndeton, where the copulatives are multiplied.