单词 | catastasis |
释义 | catastasisn. 1. (See quots.) [This sense not in Greek or Latin.] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > parts of ancient Greek play protasisa1568 catastrophe1579 epitasis1589 antistrophea1620 catastasis1656 episode1678 exode1764 agon1847 stichomythia1861 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Catastasis, the third part of a Comedy, and signifies the state and full vigour of it. Tragedies and Comedies have four principal parts in respect of the matter treated of. 1. Protasis. 2. Epitasis. 3. Catastasis. 4. Catastrophe. 1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 16 Thirdly, the Catastasis, or Counter-turn, which destroys that expectation. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Catastasis..the third part of the antient Drama; being that wherein the Intrigue..is supported, carried on, and heightned, till it be ripe for the unravelling in the Catastrophe. 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. Slawkenbergius's Tale 58 The Epitasis, wherein the action is more fully entered upon and heightened, till it arrives at its state or height called the Catastasis. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. vi. i. 364 No catastrophe, rather a catastasis, or heightening. Categories » 2. Rhetoric. The narrative part of a speech, usually the beginning of it, in which the orator sets forth the subject to be discussed. (In modern dictionaries.) Categories » 3. Medicine. ‘The state or condition of anything; constitution; habit of body’. (In modern dictionaries.) This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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