Catastasis
- n. The state, or condition of anything; constitution; habit of body.
- n. That part of a speech, usually the exordium, in which the orator sets forth the subject matter to be discussed.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.