Ĕc'ba-sĭs, n.

n. [Gr. ἔκβασις, a going out, issue, or event, from ἐκβαίνειν, to go or step out, from ἐκ, out of, and βαίνειν, to go, step.] (Rhet.) A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events and consequences.