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Definition of Epitasis
1. n. That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis.
Definition of Epitasis
1. Noun. (context: ancient drama) The second part of a play, in which the action begins. ¹
2. Noun. (rhetoric) The addition of a concluding sentence that merely emphasizes what has already been stated. ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete) The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Epitasis
1. the main part of a classical drama [n -ASES]
Medical Definition of Epitasis
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1. That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; opposed to protasis.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Epitasis
Literary usage of Epitasis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gnomon of the New Testament: Pointing Out, from the Natural Force of the by Johann Albrecht Bengel (1864)
"The particle again requires an epitasis [emphatic addition], as in Gal. i. ...
2 ; here the word always forms such an epitasis with rejoice ye, repeated. ..."
2. European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and by Barrett Harper Clark (1918)
"And do you not think that it would look as well to say, " the exposition of the
subject," as the "protasis"; "the progress of the plot,' as the "epitasis ..."
3. European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and by Barrett Harper Clark (1918)
"And do you not think that it would look as well to say, " the exposition of the
subject," as the "protasis"; "the progress of the plot, as the "epitasis"; ..."
4. The Complete Works and Life of Laurence Sterne by Laurence Sterne, Wilbur Lucius Cross, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1904)
"... in all the essential and integrant parts of it it has its Protasis, epitasis,
... The epitasis, wherein the action is more fully entered upon and ..."
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