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Definition of Elenchtic
1. a. Same as Elenctic.
Definition of Elenchtic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elenchtic
Literary usage of Elenchtic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1908)
"There are five kinds of it (one thinks of Polonius)—the directly declaratory,
the indirectly ditto, the elenchtic, the loose, the periodic—with examples of ..."
2. History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe: From the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"There are five kinds of it (one thinks of Polonius)—the directly declaratory,
the indirectly ditto, the elenchtic, the loose, the periodic—with examples of ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"Hie duty is elenchtic :—to refute the errors of others—to prove that all general
theories are at variance with some individual facts. ..."
4. History of Philosophy: From Thales to the Present Time by Friedrich Ueberweg (1876)
"His book, therefore, ii intended to be both didactic and elenchtic. Tht various
topics are discussed with that close and keen analytical and logical power, ..."
5. Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates by George Grote (1888)
"It is here handled in Plato's negative, elenchtic, tentative, manner. By some of
his contemporaries, philosophy was really considered as equivalent to ..."
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