Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • διατριβὴν δὲ συνέστησε καὶ Σωκράτει τῷ φιλοσόφῳ διεφέρετο τὴν ὑπὲρ τῶν λόγων διαφορὰν οὐ φιλονείκωσ ἀλλ’ ἐλεγκτικῶσ, ὡσ Ξενοφῶν ἱστόρηκεν ἐν τοῖσ Ἀπομνημονεύμασι. (Plutarch, Vitae decem oratorum, , section 1 2:1)
  • καὶ ὁ Ἀντισθένησ ἐπαναστὰσ μάλα ἐλεγκτικῶσ αὐτὸν ἐπήρετο· (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 4 3:1)
  • ἔστι δ’ ἀποδεῖξαι ἐλεγκτικῶσ καὶ περὶ τούτου ὅτι ἀδύνατον, ἂν μόνον τι λέγῃ ὁ ἀμφισβητῶν· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 4 63:3)
  • τὸ δ’ ἐλεγκτικῶσ ἀποδεῖξαι λέγω διαφέρειν καὶ τὸ ἀποδεῖξαι, ὅτι ἀποδεικνύων μὲν ἂν δόξειεν αἰτεῖσθαι τὸ ἐν ἀρχῇ, ἄλλου δὲ τοῦ τοιούτου αἰτίου ὄντοσ ἔλεγχοσ ἂν εἰή καὶ οὐκ ἀπόδειξισ. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 4 65:1)

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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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