auxesis

noun

1. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable)A rhetorical device whereby the subject matter is made greater, particularly

   “Avxesis, when we vse a greater word for a lesse, or thus, when the word is greater then the thing is in deede.”

2. (countable, obsolete, rhetoric, uncountable)A rhetorical device whereby the subject matter is made greater, particularly
3. (countable, uncountable)Biological growth, (now usually restricted to) expansion or growth of an organism apart from that due to cellular division.

   “Auxesis, augmentation, increase.”

   “Botanists do still distinguish between auxesis or growth by expansion, and merisis or growth by cell-multiplication.”

4. (countable, uncountable)The condition of being auxetic