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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

  • ἐπεὶ γὰρ ἀλαζὼν ἦν καὶ ἐλεγκτικὸσ καὶ πείθεσθαι οὐκ ἤθελεν οὐδὲ παρεῖχε ῥᾴδιον αὑτὸν ἐλέγχεσθαι, ὁ διδάσκαλόσ σου ὁ βέλτιστοσ ὃν εἶχε σκύφον Νεστόρειόν τινα καταφέρει αὐτοῦ πλησίον κατακειμένου, καὶ οὕτωσ ἐκράτησεν. (Lucian, 25:5)
  • ἄλλοσ ἐλεγκτικόσ, τὸ τὰ ἀνομολογούμενα σκοπεῖν, εἴ τι ἀνομολογούμενον ἐκ τόπων καὶ χρόνων καὶ πράξεων καὶ λόγων, χωρὶσ μὲν ἐπὶ τοῦ ἀμφισβητοῦντοσ, οἱο͂ν "καὶ φησὶ μὲν φιλεῖν ὑμᾶσ, συνώμοσεν δὲ τοῖσ τριάκοντα" , χωρὶσ δ’ ἐπ’ αὐτοῦ, "καὶ φησὶ μὲν εἶναί με φιλόδικον, οὐκ ἔχει δὲ ἀποδεῖξαι δεδικασμένον οὐδεμίαν δίκην" , χωρὶσ δ’ ἐπ’ αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἀμφισβητοῦντοσ, "καὶ οὗτοσ μὲν οὐ δεδάνεικε πώποτε οὐδέν, ἐγὼ δὲ καὶ πολλοὺσ λέλυμαι ὑμῶν" . (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 23 23:1)
  • ὁ γὰρ ἐλεγκτικὸσ ἐκεῖνοσ γελάσασ φήσει· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 351:10)
  • τάχ’ οὖν ἂν καὶ σοί τισ οὗτοσ τῶν κρειττόνων συνέποιτο, φαύλουσ ἡμᾶσ ὄντασ ἐν τοῖσ λόγοισ ἐποψόμενόσ τε καὶ ἐλέγξων, θεὸσ ὤν τισ ἐλεγκτικόσ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 2:4)
  • δεινὸσ οὖν ἐν λόγῳ, ὁ δ’ αὐτὸσ καὶ προτρεπτικὸσ καὶ ἐλεγκτικὸσ οὗτοσ ὁ δυνάμενοσ ἑκάστῳ παραδεῖξαι τὴν μάχην, καθ’ ἣν ἁμαρτάνει, καὶ σαφῶσ παραστῆσαι, πῶσ ὃ θέλει οὐ ποιεῖ καὶ ὃ μὴ θέλει ποιεῖ. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 4:1)

Related

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

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