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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a rhetorical device in which the speaker reproaches the audience in order to incite or convince them; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Epiplexis \Ep`i*plex"is\, n. [L., reproof, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to
   strike at, reprove; 'epi` + ? to strike.] (Rhet.)
   A figure by which a person seeks to convince and move by an
   elegant kind of upbraiding.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

epiplexis
    n 1: a rhetorical device in which the speaker reproaches the
         audience in order to incite or convince them