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(ancient drama) The second part of a play, in which the action begins. quotations examples
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
It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe.
1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
(rhetoric) The addition of a concluding sentence that merely emphasizes what has already been stated. examples
(obsolete) The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.