(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:06:43

Mei*o"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. , fr. to make smaller, from . See Meionite.] Rhet.

Diminution; a species of hyperbole, representing a thing as being less than it really is.

 

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