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Webster 1913 Edition

Epanalepsis

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Ep-anˊa-lep′sis

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Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK];

ἐπί

+ [GREEK] to take up.]

(Rhet.)

A figure by which the same word or clause is repeated after intervening matter.

Gibbs.