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plural protases
The first part of a play, in which the setting and characters are introduced quotations examples
It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe.
1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
(logic, grammar) A clause that expresses a contingent element in a conditional sentence quotations examples
Every conditional statement is made up of two component statements. The component statement that follows the "if" is called antecedent (or the "implicans" or — rarely — the "protasis"), and the component statement that follows the "then" is the "consequent"(or the "implicate" or — rarely — the "apodosis").
2005 B. P. Bairan: An Introduction to Syllogistic Logic