Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Grammar The dependent clause of a conditional sentence, as if it rains in The game will be canceled if it rains.
- noun The first part of an ancient Greek or Roman drama, in which the characters and subject are introduced.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A proposition; a maxim.
- noun In grammar and rhetoric, the first clause of a conditional sentence, being the condition on which the main term (apodosis) depends, or notwithstanding which it takes place: as, if we run (protasis), we shall be in time (apodosis); although he was incompetent (protasis), he was elected (apodosis). see
apodosis . - noun In the ancient drama, the first part of a play, in which the several persons are shown, their characters intimated, and the subject proposed and entered on: opposed to epitasis.
- noun In ancient prosody, the first colon of a dicolic verse or period.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A proposition; a maxim.
- noun (Gram.) The introductory or subordinate member of a sentence, generally of a conditional sentence; -- opposed to
apodosis . SeeApodosis . - noun The first part of a drama, of a poem, or the like; the introduction; opposed to
epitasis .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the first part of a play, in which the setting and characters are introduced
- noun logic, grammar the
antecedent in aconditional sentence
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Rather, containing the protasis from the last clause of Job 22: 23,
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But don't trust Microsoft's word processor because it suggests the word "protasis" does not exist in the English language.
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We have seen that both propositions of her protasis are false, and now for the apodosis.
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To offer a grammatical example, it would be like someone pronouncing a protasis and not following it with an apodosis.
Archive 2008-02-03 papabear 2008
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To offer a grammatical example, it would be like someone pronouncing a protasis and not following it with an apodosis.
Archive 2008-02-01 papabear 2008
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Therefore every one of these is of some use in speech; but nothing is a part or element of speech (as has been said) except a noun and a verb, which make the first juncture allowing of truth or falsehood, which some call a proposition or protasis, others an axiom, and which Plato called speech.
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Is it that at first the ancients called that [Greek omitted], or speech, which once was called protasis and now is called axiom or proposition, — which as soon as a man speaks, he speaks either true or false?
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Positing what protasis would the contraction for such several schemes become a natural and necessary apodosis?
Ulysses 2003
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It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe.
Ulysses 2003
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Indian on its Babylonian antecedent is clear from the identity of many entire omen statements — both protasis and apodosis.
ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968
tomladams commented on the word protasis
The “if�? and “then�? parts of conditional (�?if P then Q�?) statement are called the protasis (P) and apodosis (Q).
April 26, 2007