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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tmesis  \Tme"sis\  (m[=e]"s[i^]s  or  t'm[=e]"s[i^]s;  277),  n.  [L., 
  from  Gr  tmh^sis  a  cutting,  fr  te`mnein  to  cut.]  (Gram.) 
  The  separation  of  the  parts  of  a  compound  word  by  the 
  intervention  of  one  or  more  words  as  in  what  place  soever, 
  for  whatsoever  place 

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