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noun

Protasis n.

A proposition; a maxim.

(Gram.) The introductory or subordinate member of a sentence, generally of a conditional sentence; opposed to apodosis. See Apodosis.

The first part of a drama, of a poem, or the like; the introduction; opposed to epitasis.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Protasis" Quotes from Famous Books

... my brother-in-law's protasis was nothing less than a deliberate direction to me to postpone Mr. Dunkelsbaum's arrival at Brooch until Merry Down was no longer in ...

— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates

... ... SUMUS: the apodosis and protasis do not exactly correspond; the sense really required is 'if that wisdom for which you admire me does exist, it lies in this', etc. — UTINAM ... ESSET: esset here gives a greater appearance of modesty than would been expressed by sit: 'would it were, as it certainly ...

— Cato Maior de Senectute • Marcus Tullius Cicero

... banishment from home, sounds uninterruptedly from The Two Gentlemen of Verona onward till Prospero breaks his staff, buries it certain fathoms in the earth and drowns his book. It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe. It repeats itself again when he is near the grave, when his married daughter Susan, chip of the old block, is accused of adultery. But it was the original sin that darkened his understanding, weakened his will and left in him a strong inclination to evil. The ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce