Rhet. [L. apodosis, a. Gr. ἀπόδοσις, n. of action f. ἀποδιδόναι to give back.] The concluding clause of a sentence, as contrasted with the introductory clause or protasis; now usually restricted to the consequent clause in a conditional sentence, as ‘If thine enemy hunger, feed him.’
a. 1638. Mede, Wks., I. xxi. 77. Let us consider a little of the Protasis [‘Even so hath the Lord ordained, that they which preach the Gospel’], whereof the words I have now read [‘should live of the Gospel’] are the Apodosis.
1866. T. Harper, Peace thro’ Truth, Ser. I. 253. The word ‘turned’ (μεταβέβληκεν) must be understood of a physical change in the protasis; it must be therefore equally understood of a physical change in the apodosis.
