Definition for E-PIS'TRO-PHE, or E-PIS'TRO-PHY

E-PIS'TRO-PHE, or E-PIS'TRO-PHY, n. [Gr. επιστροφη; επι and στροφη, a return.]

A figure, in rhetoric, in which several successive sentences end with the same word or affirmation. Bailey. Ash.

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