A gaffe that seems far more unfortunate involves Mr.McC. 's rigid distinction between epiphora and epistrophe.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference

• Clinical symptoms may include severe light sensitivity, epiphora, pain, floaters, loss of vision, and redness of the eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Further, Espy speaks about epiphora on pages 174 and 205 as a rhetorical device containing the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference

The OED's example is from a seventeenth-century dictionary, whose explanation of epiphora closely parallels the Rev. Peacham's as Mr. Espy quotes it on p. 178.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference

I confirm that Webster's Third defines epiphora as "watering of the eyes," a definition reassuringly similar to the first definition the OED gives for the same term.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference

But Webster's Third defines epiphora as a watering of the eyes while defining epistrophe as the "repetition of the same word or expression at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences ...".    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference

At about the point I read about epiphora, however, my eyes began to water -- in the act of complaining about "inconsistencies and inaccuracies," Mr.McC. is contributing several more inconsistencies to the pages of VERBATIM.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference

So far, so good -- although the OED's second definition, labeled Rhet., suggests that at least in the past epiphora did mean "a rhetorical device containing the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses" (if I may quote from Mr.McC. 's letter again).    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference

What Is Watering Eye (epiphora)?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

What Causes Watering Eye (epiphora)?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference