Definition for HY-POB'O-LE

HY-POB'O-LE, n. [hypob'oly; Gr. υπο, under, and βαλλω, to cast.]

In rhetoric, a figure in which several things are mentioned that seem to make against the argument or in favor of the opposite side, and each of them is refuted in order. Encyc.

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