||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."