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Definition of Auxesis
1. Noun. Growth from increase in cell size without cell division.
Derivative terms: Auxetic
Definition of Auxesis
1. n. A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word; amplification; hyperbole.
Definition of Auxesis
1. Noun. (rhetoric) Extreme hyperbole. ¹
2. Noun. (rhetoric) Arranging words or clauses in a sequence of increasing force. ¹
3. Noun. (rhetoric) Amplification in any form. ¹
4. Noun. (biology) The growth of an organism without cell division ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Auxesis
1. an increase in cell size without cell division [n AUXESES]
Medical Definition of Auxesis
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Auxesis
Literary usage of Auxesis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Laboratory Course in Plant Physiology by William Francis Ganong (1908)
"(a) auxesis. Turning to enlargement, or auxesis, and seeking a basis for its
exact study, it becomes evident that, as the higher plant is built up by the ..."
2. The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley by Arthur Cayley (1896)
"... choc say, this ratio and this angle are the auxesis and the ... can from the
first figure obtain a third conformable figure by means of an auxesis and a ..."
3. GTropología: a key to open Scripture metaphors [by B. Keach and T. Delaune by Benjamin Keach (1858)
"Examples of this auxesis or amplification are partly rhetorical, partly logical.
... This is a great auxesis, for he names the acceptation of ..."
4. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1908)
"auxesis, it seems, comes in when the business, or the point at issue, admits at
its various ... For, says he, there are ten thousand kinds of auxesis. ..."
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