The corpus record

δεικ-τικός

deiktikos

able to show

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Where it lives

Analytica priora et posteriora 29 · 5.22/10k
Rhetoric 6 · 1.4/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

able to show, those which can be directly reduced

able to show: in Logic, of syllogisms, those which can be directly reduced, Arist. APr. 45a24; δ. ἐνθύμημα, opp. ἐλεγκτικόν, Id. Rh. 1396b24. Adv. -κῶς Id. APr. 29a31.

2 categorical

categorical, πρότασις Stoic. 2.85.

II demonstrative

Gramm., demonstrative, τὸ τοῦτο δεικτικόν Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.65; δ. ὄνομα D.T. 636.12; ἄρθρα Apollod.Ath. and D.T. ap. A.D. Pron. 5.19; ἀντωνυμία ib. 9.17: -ώτεραι γιγνόμεναι (sc. ἀντωνυμίαι) προσλαμβάνουσι τὸ ῑ ib. 59.16: -κόν, τό, Demetr. Eloc. 289. Adv. -κῶς Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.245, Plu. QConv. 2.747d, S.E. M. 7.267.

In the wild

δεικτικὴ · deiktikē Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1938)
δεικτικῆς · deiktikēs Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1957)
δεικτικοῖς · deiktikois Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1899)
δεικτικὴ · deiktikē Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1962)
δεικτικὸς · deiktikos Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1915)
δεικτικῶς · deiktikōs Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Α (DIORISIS sentence 621)

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