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‖ epistrophe|ɛˈpɪstrəfiː|
[mod.L., a. Gr. ἐπιστροϕή, f. ἐπί upon + στροϕή a turning, f. στρέϕειν to turn.]
1. Rhet. A figure of speech in which each sentence or clause ends with the same word.
1647Sprigge Anglia Rediv. (1854) Addr. 8 Feigned speeches, prosopopeias and epistrophes. a1679Hobbes Rhet. iv. v. 149 Repetition of the same sound in the end is called Epistrophe, a turning to the same sound in the end. 1706A. Bedford Temple Mus. v. 95 Epistrophe's, or Endings of the Verses in the same Words. 1845J. W. Gibbs Philol. Studies (1857) 207 Epistrophe..is the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses; as, ‘we are born to sorrow, pass our time in sorrow, end our days in sorrow’.
2. Philos. (See quot.)
1856R. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 72 That doctrine of the Epistrophe—the return of all intelligence by a law of nature to the divine centre.
3. Bot. (See quot.)
1882Vines Sachs' Bot. 750 In one mode, which he calls Epistrophe, the protoplasm and chlorophyll-granules collect on the free cell-walls. |