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Protasis   Listen
noun
Protasis  n.  
1.
A proposition; a maxim.
2.
(Gram.) The introductory or subordinate member of a sentence, generally of a conditional sentence; opposed to apodosis. See Apodosis.
3.
The first part of a drama, of a poem, or the like; the introduction; opposed to epitasis.





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"Protasis" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Your protasis is not good Greek," observed the Centaur, "because in Hellas we did not make such reservations. Besides, it is not so much my origin as my destination ...
— Jurgen - A Comedy of Justice • James Branch Cabell
... I will: for the end of the protasis lies yet some way off. If, I say, some child of the family, having chosen me out of the heap as a capital fellow for a booby-trap, shall open me by hazard and, attracted by the pictures, lug me off to the window-seat, why then God bless ...
— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


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