Associations to the word «Protasis»

Wiktionary

PROTASIS, noun. The first part of a play, in which the setting and characters are introduced
PROTASIS, noun. (logic) (grammar) the antecedent in a conditional sentence

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope