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Rise :: Rise (v.) To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax..

Climax :: Climax (v. i.) Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.

Climax :: Climax (v. i.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.

Pulmonata :: Pulmonata (n. pl.) An extensive division, or sub-class, of hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air-breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as Limnaea and Planorbis..

Stringent :: Stringendo (a.) Urging or hastening the time, as to a climax..

Intensation :: Intensation (n.) The act or process of intensifying; intensification; climax.

Increment :: Increment (n.) An amplification without strict climax,.

Limax :: Limax (n.) A genus of airbreathing mollusks, including the common garden slugs. They have a small rudimentary shell. The breathing pore is on the right side of the neck. Several species are troublesome in gardens. See Slug..

Bathos :: Bathos (n.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax..

Limaceous :: Limaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or like, Limax, or the slugs..

Cap :: Cap (v. t.) To complete; to crown; to bring to the highest point or consummation; as, to cap the climax of absurdity..

Anticlimax :: Anticlimax (n.) A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect..

Climax :: Climax (v. i.) The highest point; the greatest degree.

Slug :: Slug (n.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails..

Epiploce :: Epiploce (n.) A figure by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; climax; e. g., He not only spared his enemies, but continued them in employment; not only continued, but advanced them..

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