单词 | rhesis |
释义 | rhesisn. A speech, esp. a monologue delivered by a character in a classical Greek drama. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a discourse or lecture spellc888 predicationa1325 lessonc1330 collation1417 sermocination1514 discourse1533 lecture1536 descant1567 peroration1607 homilya1616 sermona1616 exercitation1632 transcursion1641 exhortatory1656 by-discourse1660 screed1748 purlicue1825 rhesis1840 talk1859 lecturette1867 chalk talk1881 pi-jaw1896 1840 J. R. Darley Grecian Drama iv. 173 Themistius tells us that he invented a prologue and a rhesis. 1871 R. Browning Balaustion 10 Any who could speak A chorus to the end, or prologize, Roll out a rhesis. 1906 Athenæum 31 Mar. 383/2 The discourse (or rhesis) put into the mouth of Martin. 1970 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 90 203/2 Sophocles continues along these lines..using the initial rhesis solely to convey ethos. 1998 H. P. Karydas Eurykleia & her Successors ii. 76 This introductory rhesis, of a kind common in Euripides, is without parallel in Sophocles' work. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1840 |
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