单词 | systrophe |
释义 | systrophen. Now rare. 1. Rhetoric. The device of ‘piling up’ a number of attributes and images of a person or thing, often in a series of figurative or similative phrases, without giving a literal description.In the first edition of quot. 1593 (1577), the author uses the term conglobatio to describe this device. ΚΠ 1593 H. Peacham Garden of Eloquence (rev. ed.) 153 Systrophe..is when the Orator bringeth in many definitions of one thing, yet not such definitions as do declare the substance of a thing by the general kind, and the difference, which the art of reasoning doth prescribe, but others of another kind all heaped together. 1880 J. P. Mahaffy Hist. Classical Greek Lit. II. xi. 347 He [sc. Demosthenes] used anaphora, anastrophe, systrophe—they enumerate nearly twenty of them—in the way of repeating words at the opening of his clauses, of imagining questions put by objectors, of questioning himself, and so forth. 1983 Rhetoric Soc. Q. 13 222 Describing the systrophe as a chain of at least three tropes amplifying some term of reference, Hegnauer notes [etc.]. 2010 G. T. Howard Dict. .Rhetorical Terms 207 Systrophe. Listing many qualities or descriptions of someone or something. Example: ‘What [a] piece of work is a man, how noble in reason,..how..admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension.’ 2. Biology. The clumping together of chloroplasts in a cell under the influence of bright light; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > movement > [noun] > of protoplasm, etc., in cell streaming1875 systrophe1886 1886 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 6 642 Very strong irritation of light causes the chlorophyll-grains to collect into one or two lumps, a phenomenon for which Schimper proposes the term systrophe. 1936 Geogr. Jrnl. 88 48 Diatoms..sink deeper and display the phenomenon of systrophe. 1998 Plant Physiol. 117 547/1 In the presence of Sr2+ a systrophe (a chloroplast translocation to the center of the cell) was frequently observed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1593 |
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