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.'
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI