hypostrophes

Noun

hypostrophe (countable and uncountable, plural hypostrophes)

1. (obsolete) The act of a patient turning himself or herself.
2. (obsolete) A relapse; a return of a disease.
   • Whenever the temperature remains elevated, however slightly, and generally when the temperature rises still more, we may confidently assume that the healing process is yet incomplete, or that a fresh malady, a sequela, or a hypostrophe is being developed.1871, C. A. Wunderlich, “The Course of the Temperature in Febrile Diseases” (chapter 11), in W. Bathurst Woodman, transl., On the Temperature in Diseases: A Manual of Medical Thermometry, London: New...
3. (rhetoric) A return to the main theme following an insertion or parenthesis.
   • In addition, the initial σὺ of line 14 completes the series in 6 and 12, providing an extended epanaphora through the mid-section of II, and supplies a slight hypostrophe (catches up the thread of the narrative after a parenthesis and makes a fresh start by either repeating the subject or adding a...1990, Daniel J. Sheerin, “The Anaphora of the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom: Stylistic Notes” (chapter 3), in David Jasper, R. C. D. Jasper, editors, Language and the Worship of the Church, London...