Crossword-Solution: PROTASIS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Protasis | n. | A proposition; a maxim. |
| Protasis | n. | The introductory or subordinate member of a sentence, generally of a conditional sentence; -- opposed to apodosis. See Apodosis. |
| Protasis | n. | The first part of a drama, of a poem, or the like; the introduction; opposed to epitasis. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PROTASIS | anagram | PROSAIST |
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| Opening lines of a drama | 1 answer |
| Introduction | 34 answers |
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Sentences with PROTASIS (5)
Thus, in the sentence, ½Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him,¸ the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis.
What then shall we say for Plato? Is it that at first the ancients called that [Greek omitted], or speech, which once was called protasis and now is called axiom or proposition,--which as soon as a man speaks, he speaks either true or false? This consists of a noun and verb, which logicians call the subject and predicate.
Therefore every one of these is of some use in speech; but nothing is a part or element of speech (as has been said) except a noun and a verb, which make the first juncture allowing of truth or falsehood, which some call a proposition or protasis, others an axiom, and which Plato called speech.
One gets into trouble enough, in floundering through its manifold nuances, which range inevitably through the bold-faced 'I love', the confident 'I will love', the hopeful 'I may be loved', and so on to the wistful, pitiful Pluperfect Subjunctive Passive, 'I might have been loved if'--Then each of us may supply the Protasis as best befits his personal opinion and particular scars, and may tear his hair, or scribble verses, or adopt the cynical, or, in fine, assume any pose which strikes his fancy.
SUMUS: the apodosis and protasis do not exactly correspond; the sense really required is 'if that wisdom for which you admire me does exist, it lies in this', etc.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1973).