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epiplectic

epiplectic adjective: of or pertaining to epiplexis.

Adjective

epiplectic

  1. (rhetoric) Of or pertaining to epiplexis.
    • With Kessels' text there is no subordinate "who?" but only the epiplectic "why?"1979, Donald J. Mastronarde, Contact and Discontinuity: Some Conventions of Speech and Action on the Greek Tragic Stage, page 47

Origin of epiplectic

From Ancient Greek ἐπιπληκτικός (epiplēktikós, “given to rebuking”), from ἐπίπληξις (epíplēxis, “rebuke”). See epiplexis.

Questions about epiplectic

What does epiplectic mean?
Epiplectic means of or pertaining to epiplexis.
What part of speech is epiplectic?
Epiplectic is an adjective.

Words near epiplectic in the dictionary

  1. epiplastid
  2. epiplastra
  3. epiplastral
  4. epiplastron
  5. epiplastrons
  6. epiplectic
  7. epipleural
  8. epipleurals
  9. epipleuron
  10. epiplexes
  11. epiplexis

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