auxesis
Noun
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Noun
auxesis
- (rhetoric) A rhetorical device whereby the subject matter is made greater, particularly
- (rhetoric) Overstatement, hyperbole.
- 1577, Henry Peacham, Garden of Eloquence:
- Avxesis, when we vse a greater word for a lesse, or thus, when the word is greater then the thing is in deede.
- 1577, Henry Peacham, Garden of Eloquence:
- (rhetoric, obsolete) Arrangement of a series in ascending order.
- (rhetoric) Overstatement, hyperbole.
- (biology) Biological growth, (now usually restricted to) expansion or growth of an organism apart from that due to cellular division.
- 1940 November 9, Nature, 618/1:
- Botanists do still distinguish between auxesis or growth by expansion, and merisis or growth by cell-multiplication.
- 1940 November 9, Nature, 618/1:
- (chemistry) The condition of being auxetic
- (rhetorical increase) amplification, amplificatio, (good) spin
- (overstatement) See hyperbole
- (ascending series) See climax
- (overstatement) See understatement
- (ascending series) See catacosmesis
- (biological) merisis
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