Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πειστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πειστικός πειστική πειστικόν

Structure: πειστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pei/qw

Sense

  1. persuasive

Examples

  • ὅτι μὲν γὰρ πιθανὴ καὶ πειστικὴ καὶ πολὺ τὸ φυσικὸν ἐπιφαίνουσα καὶ πάνθ’ ὅσα τῆσ τοιαύτησ ἰδέασ ἔχεται, πρὸσ εἰδότασ οὐδὲν ἴσωσ δεῖ λέγειν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 10 1:1)
  • τῶν γὰρ ἄλλων ἑκάστη περὶ τὸ αὑτῇ ὑποκείμενόν ἐστιν διδασκαλικὴ καὶ πειστική, οἱο͂ν ἰατρικὴ περὶ ὑγιεινῶν καὶ νοσερῶν, καὶ γεωμετρία περὶ τὰ συμβεβηκότα πάθη τοῖσ μεγέθεσι, καὶ ἀριθμητικὴ περὶ ἀριθμῶν, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ αἱ λοιπαὶ τῶν τεχνῶν καὶ ἐπιστημῶν· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 2 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. persuasive

Related

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

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