Usually means: Transition from one topic to another.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word metabasis:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. metabasis: Collins English Dictionary
  2. Metabasis, metabasis: Wordnik
  3. metabasis: Wiktionary
  4. metabasis: Dictionary.com
  5. Metabasis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. metabasis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Metabasis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. metabasis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. metabasis: FreeDictionary.org
  10. metabasis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. metabasis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Metabasis: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. metabasis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. metabasis: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (metabasis)

▸ noun:  (rhetoric) A change from one subject to another.
▸ noun:  (pathology) Any change in the course of a disease; metabola.

Similar:
metamorphism, metanoia, heterogenium, transversion, conversion, metaphysis, metastrophe, metamorphosis, change of tack, commutation, more...

Opposite:
prothesis, anabasis, progression, advancement

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Similar:
metamorphism, metanoia, heterogenium, transversion, conversion, metaphysis, metastrophe, metamorphosis, change of tack, commutation, more...

Opposite:
prothesis, anabasis, progression, advancement



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