Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Growth resulting from increase in cell size without cell division.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the method of increase in size of the valves of diatoms.
- noun In rhetoric, amplification; exaggeration; hyperbole; the use of a more unusual and high-sounding word for the ordinary and proper word.
- noun In mathematics, the ratio in which the element of a figure has to be magnified to make it conform to the corresponding element of a conformable figure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rhet.) A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word; amplification; hyperbole.
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- noun rhetoric Extreme
hyperbole . - noun rhetoric Arranging words or clauses in a sequence of increasing force.
- noun rhetoric
Amplification in any form. - noun biology The
growth of an organism withoutcell division
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun growth from increase in cell size without cell division
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The one is the discussion of an indefinite question, or general truth, which by the Greeks (as I have before observed) is called a _thesis_: and the other is employed in amplifying and exaggerating, which they call an _auxesis_.
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Would you be happy for CiF and the moderators to assume it was true, and say so, until you managed to prove it wasn't? auxesis
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Howbeit, there is an emphasis in the expression, which is not to be neglected: for as it is observed by Chrysostom, as containing an auxesis (ouchi ton mē hamartanonta monon legei alla ton mēde gnonta hamartian), and by sundry learned persons after him; so those who desire to learn the excellency of the grace of God herein, will have an impression of a sense of it on their minds from this emphatical expression, which the Holy Ghost chose to make use of unto that end; and the observation of it is not to be despised.
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965
burntsox commented on the word auxesis
In a wordie sense, consider:
1. Arranging words or clauses in a sequence of increasing force. In this sense, auxesis is comparable to climax and has sometimes been called incrementum.
2. A figure of speech in which something is referred to in terms disproportionately large (a kind of exaggeration or hyperbole).
3. Amplification in general.
http://rhetoric.byu.edu/figures/A/auxesis.htm
December 20, 2007
jmjarmstrong commented on the word auxesis
JM prioritises his auxesis collection catalogue
June 17, 2010