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 *oxiosis*; and stands opposed to *protasis*: e.g., *protasis*, all branches of history are necessary for a student; *oxiosis*, so that, without these, he can never make any considerable figure; Apotheosis, but literary history is of a more especial use, which recommends it, &c.