Lexicographical Neighbors of Elenchic
Literary usage of Elenchic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1888)
"After the first book, however, he gives up both the negative attitude and the
elenchic method, and holds forth like a veritable sophist himself. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1851)
"The truth is, that as history presents to us only one man who ever devoted his
life to prosecute this duty of an elenchic or cross-examining missionary ..."
3. Greece: II. Grecian History to the Reign of Peisistratus at Athens by George Grote (1899)
"... was a well-known fact.2 The truth is, that as history presents to us only one
man who ever devoted his life to prosecute this duty of an elenchic, ..."
4. A History of Greek Philosophy from the Earliest Period to the Time of Socrates by Eduard Zeller (1881)
"... whom it would be doing too much honour to ascribe the higher vocation of
purifying men by means of the elenchic art, and of freeing them from conceit. ..."
5. Introduction to Classical Greek Literature by William Cranston Lawton (1903)
"Anyone, endowed like him with wit, ready speech, self-control, and heroic
fearlessness, can still use the Socratic elenchic. ..."
6. Theological quarterly by Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (1907)
"Yea, the Spirit of God, who speaks in and through the written Word, Himself is
engaged in elenchic work, according to the Lord's promise. ..."
7. History of Greece by George Grote (1861)
"... was a well-known fact.2 The truth is, that as history presents to us only one
man who ever devoted his life to prosecute this duty of an elenchic, ..."
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