- epiploce
- ‖ epiploce Rhet.
(ɛˈpɪpləsiː)[mod.L., a. Gr. ἐπιπλοκή plaiting together, f. ἐπιπλέκειν, f. ἐπί upon + πλέκειν to plait, twine.]‘A figure of rhetoric, by which one aggravation, or striking circumstance, is added in due gradation to another’. (J.)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.