单词 | epistrophe |
释义 | epistrophen. 1. Rhetoric. The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences. ΘΚΠ 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 1582 R. Browne Treat. 23 Matt. in R. Harrison & R. Browne Writings (1953) 185 They make an other figure from repeating agayne, as..Anaphora, Epistrophe [etc.]. 1584 D. Fenner Artes of Logike & Rethorike i. sig. D3v Repetition of the same sounde in the ende is called Epistrophe. 1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva Addr. sig. *B4 Feigned speeches, Prosopopeia's, and Epistrophe's. a1679 T. Hobbes Art of Rhetoric (1681) iv. 149 Repetition of the same sound in the end is called Epistrophe, a turning to the same sound in the end. 1706 A. Bedford Temple Musick v. 95 Epistrophe's, or Endings of the Verses in the same Words. 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Epiphora, a figure in which a word is repeated at the end of several sentences; but it differs from Epistrophe, in that it has respect chiefly to the matter. 1845 J. W. Gibbs Philol. Stud. (1857) 207 Epistrophe..is the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses; as, ‘we are born to sorrow, pass our time in sorrow, end our days in sorrow’. 1885 Jrnl. Soc. Bibl. Lit. & Exegesis 5 89 The words are arranged with reference to resemblance in sense as well as sound. Especially is this so in the epistrophe. 1901 Jrnl. Germanic Philol. 3 449 If epistrophe be carried consistently through all the stanzas of a song, it then becomes an end refrain. 1992 Lang. in Society 21 257 The epistrophe toward the beginning of the excerpt is followed by its mirror image, rhetorical anaphora. 2. gen. The action of returning, revolving, reverting, or repeating; a tendency towards this. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [noun] gaincome?c1225 retourc1330 gaincominga1340 again-cominga1382 returna1393 again-racea1400 returning?c1400 resortc1425 turningc1440 revertence?1457 repairingc1460 again-goinga1475 regress1478 revenuea1500 reversiona1500 back-coming1535 retire?1538 back-return1577 redition1595 regredience1648 reverter1663 epistrophe1814 1814 Viscount Dillon tr. Ælian Tactics xxiv. 104 We order the file-leader on the right of the line to stand fast, like the pivot of a gate, and the entire remainder of the battalion to wheel round him, like the gate itself, and thus to complete the epistrophé. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. iii. iii. 97 That doctrine of the Epistrophe—the return of all intelligence by a law of nature to the divine centre. 1947 Jrnl. Bible & Relig. 15 17/1 Man has an urge or epistrophe within himself to find his way back to God. 1994 Crank Autumn 31 Everything that we know, everything we are, reverts to the unknown. Epistrophe is what keeps us running in circles. 3. Botany. Accumulation of chloroplasts beneath free cell walls (esp. those on an outer surface of a plant organ), typically occurring in conditions of low light. Cf. apostrophe n.1 2. Now rare. ΚΠ 1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 671 In one mode, which he calls Epistrophe [Ger. Epistrophe], the protoplasm and chlorophyll-grains collect on the free cell-walls. 1905 Nature 21 Sept. 523/2 The difference in the intensity of light..causes the different positions of epistrophe and apostrophe to be assumed by the chloroplast. 1960 Bot. Rev. 26 182 Mougeotia was an exception, parastrophe being brought about by blue and epistrophe by red. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1582 |
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