Definitions
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- noun rhetoric Using an epithet of something or someone when that epithet is not applicable.
- noun Roman law A deferred decision.
Etymologies
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From Latin ampliātiō ("extending; a deferring of the decision of a judge").
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In the final stages of the development of the theory, the notion of supposition becomes the general label that covers all the uses of a noun (substantive or adjectival), to which other recognised properties of terms (appellatio, ampliatio and restrictio) are subordinated.
Peter of Spain Spruyt, Joke 2007
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This is probably a satirical allusion to the judicial system of procrastination, which, by the Romans, was called “ampliatio.”
The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes Terence 1847
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