Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun General state or disposition of the body or mind, or of one thing with regard to other things; habitude.
- noun In rhetoric, a statement of what is considered to be the adversary's habitude of mind, by way of argument against him.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete General state or disposition of the body or mind, or of one thing with regard to other things; habitude.
- noun (Rhet.) A figure of speech whereby the mental habitude of an adversary or opponent is feigned for the purpose of arguing against him.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete General
state ordisposition of thebody ormind , or of one thing with regard to other things;habitude . - noun rhetoric A
figure of speech whereby themental habitude of anadversary oropponent isfeigned for the purpose of arguing against him;mocking byimitating another's speech.
Etymologies
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Examples
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If this is true, then I think that we are in a condition to consider the names ron (stream), ienai (to go), schesis (retention), about which you were asking; and we may see whether the namer has grasped the nature of them in letters and syllables in such a manner as to imitate the essence or not.
The CRATYLUS Plato 1975
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To know that a thing shall not be, and to determine that it shall be, is a schesis rather beseeming a half frantic creature than the infinitely wise Creator.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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For the latter relation is essentially a pros ti schesis, an ordo ad, which implies (1) a subject to which it belongs, (23) a special something in that subject on account of which it is predicated, and
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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SOCRATES: If this is true, then I think that we are in a condition to consider the names ron (stream), ienai (to go), schesis (retention), about which you were asking; and we may see whether the namer has grasped the nature of them in letters and syllables in such a manner as to imitate the essence or not.
Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
whichbe commented on the word schesis
Mocking another's accent or manner.
May 16, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word schesis
JM vows never to indulge in schesis.
February 1, 2009