释义 |
‖ epiploce Rhet.|ɛˈpɪpləsiː| [mod.L., a. Gr. ἐπιπλοκή plaiting together, f. ἐπιπλέκειν, f. ἐπί upon + πλέκειν to plait, twine.] ‘A figure of rhetoric, by which one aggravation, or striking circumstance, is added in due gradation to another’. (J.)
1678–1706in Phillips. 1721–1800in Bailey. 1828in Webster; and in mod. Dicts. |