资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Epitrope \E*pit"ro*pe\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? reference,
   arbitration, fr. ? to turn over, to give up, yield; 'epi`
   upon, over + ? to turn.] (Rhet.)
   A figure by which permission is either seriously or
   ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do;
   e. g., ``He that is unjust, let him be unjust still.''