Schesis

1. n. A figure of speech whereby the mental habitude of an adversary or opponent is feigned for the purpose of arguing against him.
2. n. General state or disposition of the body or mind, or of one thing with regard to other things; habitude.

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.