Meaning of auxesis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A rhetorical device whereby the subject matter is made greater, particularly
   countable, rhetoric, uncountable
2. Overstatement, hyperbole.
   countable, rhetoric, uncountable
3. Arrangement of a series in ascending order.
   countable, obsolete, rhetoric, uncountable
4. Biological growth, (now usually restricted to) expansion or growth of an organism apart from that due to cellular division.
   countable, uncountable
5. The condition of being auxetic
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“Avxesis, when we vse a greater word for a lesse, or thus, when the word is greater then the thing is in deede.”

“Auxesis, augmentation, increase.”

“Botanists do still distinguish between auxesis or growth by expansion, and merisis or growth by cell-multiplication.”

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