The mysterie of rhetorique unveil'd wherein above 130 the tropes and figures are severally derived from the Greek into English : together with lively definitions and variety of Latin, English, scriptural, examples, pertinent to each of them apart. Conducing very much to the right understanding of the sense of the letter of the scripture, (the want whereof occasions many dangerous errors this day). Eminently delightful and profitable for young scholars, and others of all sorts, enabling them to discern and imitate the elegancy in any author they read, &c. / by John Smith.

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Title: The mysterie of rhetorique unveil'd wherein above 130 the tropes and figures are severally derived from the Greek into English : together with lively definitions and variety of Latin, English, scriptural, examples, pertinent to each of them apart. Conducing very much to the right understanding of the sense of the letter of the scripture, (the want whereof occasions many dangerous errors this day). Eminently delightful and profitable for young scholars, and others of all sorts, enabling them to discern and imitate the elegancy in any author they read, &c. / by John Smith.
Author: Smith, John, Gent.
Publication: London :: Printed by E. Cotes for George Eversden ...,; 1665.
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APODIOXIS, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Rejectio, expulsio, rejection or an expelling: derived from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, [apodioco] Rejicio, expello, to reject or expell.

A figure when any argument or objection is with indignation rejected as extreamly absurd, impettinent, false and by no means to be ad∣mitted of.

A Latin Example.

Sed de Lucullo alio dicam loco, & ità dicam, ut ne{que} vera laus ei detracta oratione meâ, ne{que} falsa affixa esse videatur.

English Examples.

Cicero for Milo: What should Milo hate Clo∣dius, the flower of his glory?

And would any wise man ever have so said? were not ignorance the cause of this opinion, folly could not be the fruit.

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Scriptural Examples of Apodioxis.

Matth. 16.23. Thus Christ rejects Peters ar∣gument, touching his endeavour to avert Christ from his suffering; Get thee behind me, Satan, thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things of God.

Thus when James and John would have leave of Christ to command fire to come down from heaven upon the Samaritans that would not re∣ceive him, Christ rebukes them, and said in Luk. 9.55. Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of, &c.

See Act. 8.20. Mat. 4.6, 7. Psal. 50.16.