epitasis

plural epitases

1. countableuncountableancient dramaThe second part of a play, in which the action begins.

   It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe.

   1922, James Joyce, Ulysses

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   How my uncle Toby and Corporal Trim managed this matter,—with the history of their campaigns, which were no way barren of events,—may make no uninteresting under-plot in the epitasis and working up of this drama.

   1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 88

2. countablerhetoricuncountableThe addition of a concluding sentence that merely emphasizes what has already been stated.
3. countableobsoleteuncountableThe period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.