ecbasis

English

Etymology

Latin, from Ancient Greek a going out, issue, or event; out + to go.

Noun

ecbasis

(rhetoric) A figure in which the orator treats things according to their events or consequences.

Related terms

ecbatic

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ecbasis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

abscise, scabies