aparithmesisn.
/ˌapərɪθˈmiːsɪs/ Rhetoric.
‘A figure in rhetorick; enumeration.’ Todd.
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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Aparithmesis, in rhetoric, denotes the answer to the protasis or proposition itself. Thus if the protasis be appellandi tempus non erat, the Aparithmesis is at tecum anno plus vixi.
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n.1753- to be off like a redshank
- to be off on one
- to be off one's bargain
- to be off one's feed
- to be off one's game
- to be off one's legs
- to be off one's mark
- to be off one's nana
- to be off sick
- to be off the beam
- to be off the mark
- to be off the watch
- to be off to a —— start
- to be off with the old love
- to be off with the old love before one is on with the new
- to be old dog at
- to be old news
- to be on
- to be on a good wicket
- to be on a hiding to nothing
- to be on a person's ass
- to be on a person's case
- to be on a person's jack
- to be on a person's, the other side of the fence
- to be on a promise