Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume DE-- Annual epact, the excess of the solar year over the lunar year, -- being eleven days. -- Menstrual epact, or Monthly epact, the excess of a calendar month over a lunar. Ep`a·go"ge (?), n. [L., from Gr. επαγωγη a bringing in, fr. επαγειν. See Epact.] (Logic) The adducing of particular examples so as to lead to a universal conclusion; the argument by induction. Ep`a·gog"ic (?), a. Inductive. Latham. E·pal"ate (?), a. [Pref. e- + palpus.] (Zoöl.) Without palpi. Ep·an`a·di·plo"sis (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. ?; επι + ? to make double.] (Rhet.) A figure by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence; as, "Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice." Phil. iv. 4. Ep·an`a·lep"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?; επι + ? to take up.] (Rhet.) A figure by which the same word or clause is repeated after intervening matter. Gibbs. Ep`a·naph"o·ra (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. ? a recurrence; επι + ? to bring or carry back.] (Rhet.) Same as Anaphora. Gibbs. Ep`a·nas"tro·phe (?), n. [NL., from Gr. ? a return, epanastrophe; επι + ? to return.] (Rhet.) Same as Anadiplosis. Gibbs. E·pan"o·dos (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. ? a rising, return; επι + ? a way up, rising; ? up + ? way.] (Rhet.) A figure of speech in which the parts of a sentence or clause are repeated in inverse order, as in the following: -- O more exceeding love, or law more just? E·pan"o·dy (?), n. [See Epanodos.] (Bot.) The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular form; -- considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition. Ep`an·or·tho"sis (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. ?; επι + ? to set right again; ? again + ? to set straight.] A figure by which a speaker recalls a word or words, in order to substitute something else stronger or more significant; as, Most brave! Brave, did I say? most heroic act! |