Epitasis

[i'pitәsis]

(n.) That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis.

(n.) The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.

Edited by Janet

n. the main action of a Greek drama leading to the catastrophe—opp. to Protasis.

Typist: Sam