EPIP'LOCY, noun [Gr. implication; to fold.] A figure of rhetoric, by which one aggravation, or striking circumstance, is added in due gradation to another; as, 'He not only spared his enemies, but continued them in employment; not only continued them, but advanced them.'
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.