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auxesis
[ awg-zee-sis, awk-see- ]
noun
Biology.
- growth, especially that resulting from an increase in cell size.
auxesis
/ É”ËɡˈziËsɪs; É”ËkˈsiË- /
noun
- growth in animal or plant tissues resulting from an increase in cell size without cell division
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
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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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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.
From
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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