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epitases

epitases is the plural of epitasis.

Meaning of epitasis

Noun

epitasis (countable and uncountable, plural epitases)

  1. (ancient drama) 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.1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 88
  2. (rhetoric) The addition of a concluding sentence that merely emphasizes what has already been stated.
  3. (obsolete) The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.

Questions about epitases

What is epitases the plural of?
Epitases is the plural of epitasis.

Words near epitases in the dictionary

  1. epitaphologists
  2. epitaphology
  3. epitaphs
  4. epitaphy
  5. epitarsus
  6. epitases
  7. epitasis
  8. epitaxial
  9. epitaxial layer
  10. epitaxial layers
  11. epitaxiality

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