epitasis

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/ɪˈpɪtəsɪs/

Definition of epitasis

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noun

(countable, uncountable)The second part of a play, in which the action begins.

“How my uncle Toby and Corporal Trim managed this matter,—with the history of their campaigns, which were no way barren of events,—may make no uninteresting under-plot in the epitasis and working up of this drama.”
“It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe.”

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noun

(countable, uncountable)The second part of a play, in which the action begins.

“How my uncle Toby and Corporal Trim managed this matter,—with the history of their campaigns, which were no way barren of events,—may make no uninteresting under-plot in the epitasis and working up of this drama.”
“It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe.”
(countable, rhetoric, uncountable)The addition of a concluding sentence that merely emphasizes what has already been stated.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.

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From Ancient Greek ἐπίτασις (epítasis, “stretching”), from ἐπιτείνω (epiteínō, “to stretch”), from ἐπί (epí) + τείνω (teínō, “stretch”).

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