Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: anagnorisis

It hat to happen sooner or later, and finally it has happened.
I have always held the view - as a foreign student of the English
language - that if a word was not in the Concise Oxford Dictionary - I
am using the 1995 edition at present - it was not worth knowing.
And finally it has happened. Reading - devouring - Colin Dexter's 'The
Remorseful Day' I came across 'anagnorisis' which, lo and behold, is not
listed in the Concise Oxford Dictionary. (The other word I had to look
up, 'prognathic', is listed) The closest to it, in fact the only listed
word starting with anag..., is 'anagram'.
Jettisoning my afore-mentioned principle, I went online to look
'anagnorisis' up on 
www.brittanica.com
 and 
www.m-w.com
, and found it in
both places. Which was just as well, for now I shall be able to sleep
soundly tonight.
Indulge me, if I sound a bit silly, but I simply had to get this off my
chest. (After my third glass of Mexican Cabernet-Sauvignon. Still no
Bolly in my cellar, I am grieved to admit)
--
Xakero
Sapere aude!
 (Horace, Epistulae)
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You have'nt told us what it means.  It appears to have Greek origins. 
Anagora could mean by the or away from the market.  So one could think
anagorisis means the state of wanting to stay out of business???
Menin Xakero!
Martin
cominciando la prima bicchiere di vino rosso italiano (dal veneto)

 You have'nt told us what it means.  It appears to have Greek origins.
(I did quote the URLs, though, where I had found the definition)
If I am a bit slow in responding it's because I'm too busy during the
week and go to the Illuminated Realm on weekends for relaxation.
www.brittanica.com
anagnorisis
(Greek: "recognition"), in a literary work, the startling discovery that
produces a change from ignorance to knowledge. It is discussed by
Aristotle in the Poetics as an essential part of the plot of a tragedy,
although anagnorisis occurs in comedy, epic, and, at a later date, the
novel as well. Anagnorisis usually involves revelation of the true
identity of persons previously unknown, as when a father recognizes a
stranger as his son, or vice versa. One of the finest occurs in
Sophocles' Oedipus Rex when a messenger reveals to Oedipus his true
birth, and Oedipus recognizes his wife Jocasta as his mother, the man he
slew at the crossroads as his father, and himself as the unnatural
sinner who brought misfortune on Thebes. This recognition is the more
artistically satisfying because it is accompanied by a peripeteia
("reversal"), the shift in fortune from good to bad that moves on to the
tragic catastrophe. An anagnorisis is not always accompanied by a
peripeteia, as in the Odyssey, when Alcinous, ruler of Phaeacia, has his
minstrel entertain a shipwrecked stranger with songs of the Trojan War,
and the stranger begins to weep and reveals himself as none other than
Odysseus. Aristotle discusses several kinds of anagnorisis employed by
dramatists. The simplest kind, used, as he says, "from poverty of wit,"
is recognition by scars, birthmarks, or tokens. More interesting are
those that arise naturally from incidents of the plot.
www.m-w.com
 (Collegiate Dictionary)
Main Entry: an戢g搖o斟i新is
Pronunciation: "a-"nag-'nor-&-s&s
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural an戢g搖o斟i新es /-"sEz/
Etymology: Greek anagnOrisis, from anagnOrizein to recognize, from ana-
+ gnOrizein to make known; akin to Greek gnOrimos well-known, gignOskein
to come to know -- more at KNOW
Date: circa 1800
: the point in the plot especially of a tragedy at which the protagonist
recognizes his or her or some other character's true identity or
discovers the true nature of his or her own situation
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