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epexegesis ep-ex-e-ge'-sis from Gk. epi, "in addition" and exegeisthai, "to explain" When one interprets what one has just said. A kind of redefinition or self-interpretation (often signaled by constructions such as "that is to say..."). Examples I'm afraid we've run up against the bamboo curtain—that is to say, an economic and political barrier in the East as real as the iron curtain has been in the West. http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/E/epexegesis.htm
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ep[i[deic[tic 7ep#! djk4tik8
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5Gr epideiktikos, declamatory < epideikt(os), verbal adj. (< epideiknynai, to display < epi3: see EPI3 + deiknynai, to show: see DICTION) + 3ikos, 3IC6 intended for display, esp. rhetorical display; designed to impress
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Dear WW: coming from the Silva Rheticae, "epexegesis" should have impeccable pedigree.
I can give you an everyday illustration of it. A young black minister asked an old black
minister how he should organize his sermons. The old man replied: "You tells 'em what you're
going to tell em, you tells 'em , and you tells 'em what you told 'em."
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