Epitrope

‖E‐pit″ro‐pe (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. � reference, arbitration, fr. � to turn over, to give up, yield; επἴ upon, over + � to turn.] (Rhet.) A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do; e. g., “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still.”