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A figure in which several things are mentioned that seem to make against the argument, or in favor of the opposite side, each of them being refuted in order.

A figure in which several things are mentioned that seem to make against the argument, or in favor of the opposite side, each of them being refuted in order.

hip-pob'o-l[=e], n. (rhet.) the mention in argument of things apparently damaging to one's side, with the successive refutation of each. [Gr.]