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‖ ethoˈpœia Obs. rare.
[L. ēthopœia, a. Gr. ἠθοποιία, f. ἦθο-ς character + ποιία representation.]
Delineation of character; moral portraiture. Also Rhet. (see quot. 1678).
1659Instruct. Oratory 74 Examples of such Descriptions and Histories of things under which I comprehend Ethopoeas. 1678–1706Phillips, Ethopœa, a figure of Rhetorick in which there is a feigning of certain words accommodated to certain persons, either to their praise or reproach. 1721–1800in Bailey. |