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Webster 1913 Edition

Ecbasis

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Ec′ba-sis

(ĕk′bȧ-sĭs)

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Noun.

[L., fr. Gr.

ἔκβασισ

a going out, issue, or event;

ἐκ

out +

βαίνειν

to go.]

(Rhet.)

A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.