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Webster 1913 Edition
Epitrope
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E-pit′ro-pe
,Noun.
[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK] reference, arbitration, fr. [GREEK] to turn over, to give up, yield;
ἐπί
upon, over + [GREEK] to turn.] (Rhet.)
A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do; e. g., “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still.”