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ἐλεγκ-τικός

elegktikos

fond of cross-questioning

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Where it lives

Rhetoric 11 · 2.56/10k
Enchiridion 1 · 2.02/10k
Symposium 1 · 1.05/10k
Sophist 1 · 0.62/10k
Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
Discourses 3 · 0.4/10k
Metaphysics 2 · 0.25/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ἐλεγκ-τικός · elenk-tikos — LSJ

fond of cross-questioning, examining, cross-questioner, fond of reproving, critical

fond of cross-questioning or examining, Pl. Sph. 216b, etc.; ὁ ἐ. ἐκεῖνος that cross-questioner, Id. Tht. 200a; fond of reproving, critical, τῶν ἁμαρτανομένων Arist. Rh. 1381a31, cf. Longin. 4.1 (Sup.); ἐ. βίος Jul. Or. 6.191a. Adv. -κῶς X. Smp. 4.2, etc.: Sup., Luc. Demon. 55.

2 refutative

refutative, of indirect modes of proof such as the reductio ad absurdum, ἐνθυμήματα Arist. Rh. 1396b25. Adv. -κῶς Alex.Aphr. in Metaph. 272.32.

3 means of detecting

-κά, τά, means of detecting, πάθους Alex.Trall. 1.15.

In the wild

ἐλεγκτικῶς · elenktikōs Aristotle, Metaphysics book 4 (DIORISIS sentence 792)
ἐλεγκτικῶς · elenktikōs Aristotle, Metaphysics book 4 (DIORISIS sentence 789)
ἐλεγκτικά · elenktika Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
ἐλεγκτικὸν · elenktikon Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
ἐλεγκτικοὺς · elenktikous Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
ἐλεγκτικὸν · elenktikon Aristotle, Rhetoric 2

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