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‖ apodosis Rhet.|əˈpɒdəsɪs|
[L. apodosis, a. Gr. ἀπόδοσις, n. of action f. ἀποδιδόναι to give back.]
The concluding clause of a sentence, as contrasted with the introductory clause or protasis; now usually restricted to the consequent clause in a conditional sentence, as ‘If thine enemy hunger, feed him.’
a1638Mede Wks. i. xxi. 77 Let us consider a little of the Protasis [‘Even so hath the Lord ordained, that they which preach the Gospel’], whereof the words I have now read [‘should live of the Gospel’] are the Apodosis. 1866T. N. Harper Peace thro' Truth 253 The word ‘turned’ [µεταβέβληκεν] must be understood of a physical change in the protasis; it must be therefore equally understood of a physical change in the apodosis. |