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That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis.

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  1. n. That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis.
  2. n. The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.
  3. 1. That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis. 2. (Med.) The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm. Dunglison.
  4. The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.Dunglison.
  5. n. That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis. n. The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.