E-pĭt'ro-pe, n.

n. [Gr. ἐπιτροπή, reference, arbitration, from ἐπιτρέπειν, to turn over, to give up, yield, from ἐπί and τρέπειν, to turn or guide toward; Fr. épitrope.] (Rhet.) A figure by which a permission, either seriously or ironically, is granted to an opponent, to do what he proposes to do; as, “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still.” Rev. xxii. 11.