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APOPHASIS

Volume 1 · 57 words · 1778 Edition

a figure in rhetoric, by which the orator, speaking ironically, seems to waive what he would plainly infirmate: as, Neither will I mention those things, which if I should, you notwithstanding could neither confute nor speak against them.

APOPLEGMATIZANTS, in pharmacy, medicines proper to clear the head from superfluous phlegm, whether by spitting, or by the nose.