Emily Dickinson Lexicon

E-PIP'LO-CE, or E-PIP'LO-CY, n. [Gr. επιπλοκη, implication; επι and πλεκω, to fold.]

A figure of rhetoric, by which one aggravation, or striking circumstance, is added in due gradation to another; as, “He not only spared his enemies, but continued them in employment; not only continued them, but advanced them.” Johnson.