THESAURUS

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A decontextualized quotation from a document (often, but not always, a book of the Bible) to establish a proposition rhetorically through an appeal to authority.

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Related dictionary entries include anthypophora, epexegesis, prophetry, epicrisis, procatalepsis, byword.

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