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Webster 1913 Edition
Epitasis
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E-pit′a-sis
,Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] a stretching, fr. [GREEK] to stretch upon or over;
ἐπί
upon + [GREEK] 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.