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CIDE DICTIONARY

epitrope

CIDE DICTIONARY

epitropen. [L., fr. Gr. reference, arbitration, fr. to turn over, to give up, yield; 'epi` upon, over + to turn.].
     A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do; e. g., “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still.”  [1913 Webster]

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