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. g. protasis, all branches of history are necessary for a student; catastasis, so that, without these, he can never make any considerable figure;
Apodosis || Apollinaris gure; apodosis, but literary history is of a more especial use, which recommends it, &c.