[uh-pod-uh-sis] 
[-seez] . | the clause expressing the consequence in a conditional sentence, often beginning with then, as “then I will” in “If you go, then I will.” Compare protasis (def. 1). |
| a·pod·o·sis (ə-pŏd'ə-sĭs) n. pl. a·pod·o·ses (-sēz') The main clause of a conditional sentence, as The game will be canceled in The game will be canceled if it rains. [Late Latin, from Greek, from apodidonai, to give back : apo-, apo- + didonai, to give; see dō- in Indo-European roots.] |
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