cataphasis

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

cătăphăsis, is (acc. cataphasin), f.,

an affirmation (pure Lat. affirmatio, aientia; opp. apophasis or abnuentia), Aur. Aug. Rhet. 11; Isid. Orig. 2, 27, 3.