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Ecbasis vs Ectasis - What's the difference?

ecbasis | ectasis |

As nouns the difference between ecbasis and ectasis

is that ecbasis is a figure in which the orator treats things according to their events or consequences while ectasis is dilatation: for example, bronchiectasis, which refers to a pathologic dilatation of the bronchi of the lung.

ecbasis

English

Noun

  • (rhetoric) A figure in which the orator treats things according to their events or consequences.

    • Related terms

    * ecbatic (Webster 1913)

    ectasis

    English

    Noun

    (ectases)
  • dilatation: for example, bronchiectasis, which refers to a pathologic dilatation of the bronchi of the lung.
  • The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.

    • Anagrams

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