英语词汇“epitasis”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

epitasis

释义

‖ epitasis|ɛˈpɪtəsɪs|
Also 6 epitazis.
[mod.L., a. Gr. ἐπίτασις, f. ἐπιτείνειν to intensify, f. ἐπί upon + τείνειν to stretch.]
‘That part of a play where the plot thickens’ (Liddell and Scott).
The Alexandrian grammarians regarded a dramatic work as consisting of three parts, the protasis or introduction, the epitasis, in which the action begins, and the catastrophe. Cf. catastasis and quots. under that word.
1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 50 To make a more pleasing Epatazis, it fell out amongst them thus.a1626Bp. Andrewes Serm. (1856) I. 95 Being in the theatre all the while from the epitasis to the very catastrophe.1759–67Sterne Tr. Shandy (1802) II. v. 159 This matter..may make no uninteresting underplot in the epitasis and working-up of this drama.1815Hist. J. Decastro I. 259 The epitasis thereof, that is to say, the bustle, comes next.

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