hypotyposis

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  1. In rhetoric, vivid description of a scene or an event, as though it were present before the eyes of the audience; an oratorical word-picture.
  2. A sketch or outline of a science.
  3. The Hypotyposes the title of the exposition of the Pyrrhonian philosophy by Sextus Empiricus.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ὐποτύπωσις, a sketch, outline, from ὑποτυποῡν, form slightly, sketch out, from ὑπό, under, + τύπος, impression, type.
 

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