mĕtastăsis, is, f., = μετάστασις, a rhet. figure.
I A refusing , Agn. Roman. de Fig. 16, p. 155.—
II = metabasis, a passing over, transition , Julian. Rufin. de Schem. 23, p. 243.
·noun A spiritual change, as during baptism. II. Metastasis ·noun A change in the location of a dis...
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