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auxesis

[ awg-zee-sis, awk-see- ]

noun

Biology.
  1. growth, especially that resulting from an increase in cell size.


auxesis

/ É”ËɡˈziËsɪs; É”ËkˈsiË- /

noun

  1. growth in animal or plant tissues resulting from an increase in cell size without cell division
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of auxesis1

1570–80; < Greek: increase, equivalent to ²¹³Ü³æŧ- verbid stem of ²¹Ãº³æ±ð¾±²Ô to increase + -sis -sis
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of auxesis1

C16: via Latin from Greek: increase, from auxein to increase, grow
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Example Sentences

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Figures of auxesis and repetition—often pulling together words or themes from earlier in the speech—commonly proliferate in the peroration, and many orators will crank it up a little in the direction of the grand style.

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Pertaining to, or containing, auxesis; amplifying.

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Auxesis, awk-sē′sis, n. gradual deepening in force of meaning: hyperbole.

From

And as to Horace, that Nil molitur inepte, in one Place, and——Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus, in another, must be regarded as Hyperboles; the one as an Auxesis, the other as a Mei�sis.

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