Definition of Epitesis
||E*pit"a*sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;
a stretching, fr. &?; to stretch upon or over; 'epi` upon
+ &?; to stretch.] 1. That part which embraces
the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the
catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis.
2. (Med.) The period of violence in a
fever or disease; paroxysm. Dunglison.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- in ancient drama, the second part of a play, in which the action begins
*1922: It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe. — James Joyce, Ulysses
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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