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If the chain of arguments were freed of its enthymematic character, the suppressed conclusions would appear as premises of Episyllogisms.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth

An Epicheirema, then, is an abbreviated chain of reasoning, or Polysyllogism, comprising an Episyllogism with one or two enthymematic Prosyllogisms.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth

In such cases, strictly speaking, the assent is given neither to antecedent nor consequent of the conditional proposition, but to their connexion, that is, to the enthymematic inferentia.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry

Each of these sentences contains a conclusion and an enthymematic argument in support of it.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William