APODOSIS, in rhetoric, makes the third part of a complete exordium, being properly the application, or restriction of the protasis. The apodosis is the same with what is otherwise called axiosis; and stands opposed to protasis: e. gr. protasis, all branches of history are necessary for a student; cateseus, so that, without these, he can never make any considerable figure; apodosis, but literary history is of a more especial use, which recommends it, &c.