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endeixis

endeixis noun: a legal procedure in Ancient Greece in which a wrongdoer is denounced to the magistrate.

Noun

endeixis

  1. (historical) A legal procedure in Ancient Greece in which a wrongdoer is denounced to the magistrate.
    • Thus, the endeixis was the proper form in the case of persons banished for the crime of homicide; of habitual contemners of religion who were caught intruding at any sacred rite; and mroe especially of public debtors who had wrongfully appropriated public funds. In all these cases the guilt to the...1836, Heinrich Hase, The Public and Private Life of the Ancient Greeks, page 295
    • In Endeixis (denunciation) the accused was beyond the reach of the prosecutor and his summons.1892, E Poste, Aristotle on the Constitution of Athens

Origin of endeixis

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔνδειξις (éndeixis). See endeictic.

Questions about endeixis

What does endeixis mean?
Endeixis means a legal procedure in Ancient Greece in which a wrongdoer is denounced to the magistrate.
What part of speech is endeixis?
Endeixis is a noun.

Words near endeixis in the dictionary

  1. ended one's life
  2. ended out
  3. ended up
  4. endeed
  5. endeictic
  6. endeixis
  7. endek
  8. endellionite
  9. endellite
  10. endellites
  11. endemia

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