semi-colon

plural semi-colons

1. datedDated form of semicolon.

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   [page 25] The semi-colon appears in two forms: the first is this; if one member contains a word or words, which lead the reader to expect another member, and another member, having a word or words of reference to the former does immediately follow, the latter member is a semi-colon. The second form is, when one member is followed by another, and the latter means nothing or effects nothing, without calling in aid the preceding member, then the latter member is a semi-colon. […] [page 28] Periods, colons, and semi-colons, having been debated at great length, what is a colon or semi-colon will be summed up in a general description:—a colon or semi-colon is the more which cometh after, used only to illustrate what goeth immediately before; the more which cometh after and that which goeth before forming a period.

   1842, F[rancis] Francillon, “Section the Third”, in An Essay on Punctuation with Incidental Remarks on Composition, London: Whittaker and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 25 and 28