||A*pod"o*sis (&?;), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to give back; &?; from, back again + &?; to give.] (Gram.) The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clause which expresses a condition. Thus, in the sentence, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him," the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis.

&fist; Some grammarians extend the terms protasis and apodosis to the introductory clause and the concluding clause, even when the sentence is not conditional.

• the consequential clause in a conditional sentence
        example: In, "I will be coming if this weather holds up", "I will be coming" is the apodosis