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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

  • ἔτι δὲ ἄλλον τρόπον καθόλου περὶ ἁπάντων λάβωμεν, καὶ λέγωμεν παρασημαινόμενοι τοὺσ ἐλεγκτικοὺσ καὶ τοὺσ ἀποδεικτικούσ, καὶ τοὺσ τῶν φαινομένων ἐνθυμημάτων, οὐκ ὄντων δὲ ἐνθυμημάτων, ἐπεί περ οὐδὲ συλλογισμῶν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 22 17:1)
  • φιλοσόφουσ τε τοῖσ Βραχμᾶσιν ἀντιδιαιροῦνται Πράμνασ, ἐριστικούσ τινασ καὶ ἐλεγκτικούσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 140:1)

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

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