epistrophic

Adjective

epistrophic (comparative more epistrophic, superlative most epistrophic)

1. Pertaining to the epistropheus.
   • The union of the atlas and epistropheus is described in this section because (1) there is often a direct communication between the synovial cavity of the transverse epistropic and the occipito-atlantal joints; (2) the rotatory movements of the head take place around the dens (odontoid process); and...1914, Human Anatomy: A Complete Systematic Treatise, page 215
2. Pertaining to epistrophe.
   • The apostrophic or epistrophic arrangement is the result of complicated laws dependent on the action of light; very strong irritation of light causes the chlorophyll-grains to collect into one or two lumps, a phenomenon for which Schimper proposes the term systrophe.1886, A. F. W. Schimper, “Chlorophyll-grains and Chromatophores”, in Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, page 642
   • The accompanying diagram shows all the information I have been able to collect regarding the plant's epistrophic interval.1888, The Journal of the Linnean Society: Botany, page 356
3. (rhetoric) Pertaining to epistrophe.
   • Trump's stock phrase "believe me" might be considered one example of a larger pattern in his rhetoric, which I refer to as epistrophic punctuation, or the repetition of short phrases, often ones that convey an affective or epistemic stance, that appear at the end of rhetorical units in his speeches.2017, Jennifer Sclafani, Talking Donald Trump: A Sociolinguistic Study of Style
   • Epistrophic conversion provides a model much better suited to the demands of the modern politics of the self because it is always framed as a revelatory embrace of a preexisting self.2020, Adam Ellwanger, Metanoia: Rhetoric, Authenticity, and the Transformation of the Self, page 112