E-păn'o-dŏs, n.

n. [Gr. ἐπάνοδος, a rising, return, from ἐπί and ἄνοδος, a way up or back, return.] (Rhet.) (a.) A figure of speech in which the parts of a sentence or clause are repeated in inverse order, as in the following lines: — O more exceeding love, or law more just; Just law indeed, but more exceeding love. Milton. (b.) The return to the principal heads, or to the proper subject, of a discourse, after a digression, or in order to consider the topics separately and more particularly.