epitasis (epitasis)

[NL., Do you look...for conclusions in a protasis? I thought the law of comedy had reserved [them].. to the catastrophe; and that the epitasis, as we are taught, and the catastasis had been intervening parts. B. Jonson, Magnet ick Lady, i. 1. How my Uncle Toby and Trim managed this matter may make no uninteresting underplot in the epitasis Sterne, Tristram Shandy, ii. 5. IMG:content-0634.png:[blocks in formation] 2. In logic, the consequent term of a proposition.-31. In med., the beginning and increase of a fever.-4. In music, the raising of the voice or the strings of an instrument from a lower to a higher pitch: opposed to anes is. epitela (ep-i-to'la), n. [NL., It is so thin that it might well be included with the other telæ as the epitela . Wilder and Gage , Anat. Tech., p. 491. epitelar (ep-i-tē'lar), a. [ He [Filelfo] wrote epithalamial and funeral orations. Encyc. Brit., IX. 162. epithalamic (epi-tha-lam'ik), a. [ I made it both in form and matter to emulate the kind of poem which was called epithalamium , and (by the ancients) used to be sung when the bride was led into her chamber. B. Jonson, Masque of Hymen The book of the Canticles is a representation of God in Christ, as a bridegroom in a marriage-song, in an epitha lamion . Donne , Sermons, vii. epithalamize (ep-i-thal'a-miz), v. i.; pret, and pp. epithalamized , ppr. epithalamizing . [ epi thalamium + -ize .] To compose an epithala epithalamy mium. Those [rejoicings] to celebrate marriages were called songs nuptiall, or Epithalamies , but in a certaine mist i call sense. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 37. Sanctvm-Sanctorvm is thy Song of Songs,... Where thou (devoted) doost divinely sing Christ's and his Chvrches Epithalamy . Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Magnificence. epithalline (ep-i-thal'in), a. [ epithallus + -ine2.] In cryptogamic bot ., situated or growing upon the thallus: applied to various outgrowths or protuberances, as tubercles, squamules, etc., on a lichen thallus.