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‖ elenchus|ɪˈlɛŋkəs|
pl. elenchi.
[L. elench-us, a. Gr. ἔλεγχος cross-examination. (Sense 3 appears to be only Lat.; perh. another word.]
1. a. Logic. = elench 1. b. Socratic elenchus: the method pursued by Socrates of eliciting truth by means of short question and answer.
1663Butler Hud. i. iii. 1258, I shall bring you, with your pack Of fallacies, t' Elenchi back. 1721–1800in Bailey. 1850Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. (ed. 2) 116 My [Socrates'] elenchus is nothing better in itself than the logic..of any other professor. 1860Abp. Thomson Laws Th. §127. 271 Admitting the apparent correctness of the opposing argument, we may prove the contradictory of its conclusion by an unassailable argument of our own, which is then called an Elenchus (ἔλεγχος). 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece xi. 340 Such people..cared little about even the Socratic elenchus. 1878Geo. Eliot Coll. Breakf. P. 713 No dull elenchus makes a yoke for her.
2. = elench 2. Obs.
1721–1800in Bailey.
†3. Antiq. (See quot.)
1727–51Chambers Cycl., Elenchus in antiquity, a kind of ear-ring set with pearls. In mod. Dicts. |