Hy̆p'o-di-ăs'to-le, n.

Hy̆p'o-di-ăs'to-le, n. [Gr. ὑποδιαστολή, separation beneath, from ὑπό, under, beneath, and διαστολή, drawing asunder, from διαστέλλειν, to sever, compounded of διά, asunder, and στέλλειν, to place or put.] (Gr. Gram.) A mark like a comma placed after some forms of the article and relative pronoun when followed by the enclitics τέ and τὶ, to distinguish them from other words having the same letters; as, ὅ,τε, τό,τε, and ὅ,τι, in distinction from ὅτε, τότε, and ὅτι.