hypostrophe
English edit
Etymology edit
Ancient Greek [Term?] (“to turn round or back”).
Noun edit
hypostrophe (countable and uncountable, plural hypostrophes)
- (medicine) The act of a patient turning himself or herself.
- (medicine) A relapse, or return of a disease.
- (rhetoric) The use of insertion or parenthesis.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “hypostrophe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)