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ἐλεγκτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλεγκτικός ἐλεγκτική ἐλεγκτικόν

Structure: ἐλεγκτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)le/gxw

Sense

  1. fond of cross-questioning or examining

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καίτοι τῆσ μὲν ψυχῆσ προεῖπον τὰ πλεῖστα μνημονικόν τε ’γάρ εἶναι ^ καὶ εὐφυᾶ καὶ συνετὸν καὶ ὀξὺν ἐπινοῆσαι καὶ καιροῦ μάλιστα ἐστοχάσθαι φημὶ δεῖν αὐτόν, ἔτι δὲ κριτικόν τε ποιημάτων καὶ ᾀσμάτων καὶ μελῶν τῶν ἀρίστων διαγνωστικὸν καὶ τῶν κακῶσ πεποιημένων ἐλεγκτικόν . (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 74:2)
  • τῶν δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ περιπάτου Κλεόδημοσ, οἶσθα τὸν στωμύλον, τὸν ἐλεγκτικόν, Ξίφοσ αὐτὸν οἱ μαθηταὶ καὶ Κοπίδα καλοῦσιν. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 6:2)
  • ἔστι δὲ τὸ μὲν δεικτικὸν ἐνθύμημα τὸ ἐξ ὁμολογουμένων συνάγειν, τὸ δὲ ἐλεγκτικὸν τὸ τὰ ἀνομολογούμενα συνάγειν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 22 15:1)
  • εὐδοκιμεῖ δὲ μᾶλλον τῶν ἐνθυμημάτων τὰ ἐλεγκτικὰ τῶν ἀποδεικτικῶν διὰ τὸ συναγωγὴν μὲν ἐναντίων εἶναι ἐν μικρῷ τὸ ἐλεγκτικὸν ἐνθύμημα, παρ’ ἄλληλα δὲ φανερὰ εἶναι τῷ ἀκροατῇ μᾶλλον. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 23 30:1)
  • οὕτω μὲν οὖν ἐλεγκτικόν, ὧδε δὲ δεικτικόν· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 24 3:9)

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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