Plō'çe, n.

n. [Gr. πλοκή, complication, from πλέκειν, to entwine, to complicate.] (Rhet.) A figure in which a word is separated or repeated, by way of emphasis, so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality; as, “His wife's a wife indeed.” Bailey. “In that great victory Cæsar was Cæsar, i. e., a mighty conqueror.” Phillips.