epiphoran.
/ɛˈpɪfərə/ 1. A sudden afflux of humours; esp. ‘a superabundant flow of tears, or of an aqueous or serous humour from the eyes’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > wateriness
lachrymation1598
watery humour1612
epiphora1657
1657 Physical Dict. Epiphora, involuntary weeping.
1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
1875 H. Walton Pract. Treat. Dis. Eye (ed. 3) 144 It displaced the lower eyelid together with the punctum, and produced epiphora.
1879 T. Bryant Man. Pract. Surg. (ed. 3) I. viii. 348 [If] accompanied by troublesome watering of the eye, ‘epiphora’.
2. Rhetoric. (See quots.)
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > repetition > at end of successive clauses
epistrophe1582
counter-turn1589
epiphora1678
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Epiphora, Force or Impression, a figure in Rhetorick, in which one word is repeated at the end of several Sentences, but differs from Epistrophe, in that it hath respect chiefly to the Matter.
1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
3. Logic. The conclusion of a syllogism or consequent of a hypothesis.
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1721 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. ; and in mod. Dicts.
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