apodixisapodeixisn.
/apəʊˈdɪksɪs//apəʊˈdʌɪksɪs/ ? Obsolete.
Demonstration, absolute proof.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > [noun] > conclusive proof or argument
proving?c1225
demonstrationa1393
warranta1450
satisfaction1584
clunchfist1590
ergo1590
apodixis1646
ergotism1656
clinker1733
clincher1804
clencher1878
1646 G. Buck Hist. Life Richard III ii. 60 If he had not afterwards given an apodixis in the battaile, upon what plat-forme he had projected and raised that hope.
a1713 A. Pitcairne Babell (1830) 251 My second argument is..a compleat apodyxis Against this pray'r.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Apodixis, demonstration. [Also in mod. Dicts.]
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n.1646- not to care, give, be worth, , a tinker's curse, cuss, or damn
- not to care, give, be worth, etc, a tinker's
- not to care, give, be worth, etc, a tinker's curse, cuss, or damn
- not to careor matter a farthing
- not to choose
- not to count a thing at a cress
- not to count at a cress
- not to do something for the world
- not to etc a mite
- not to etc a rap
- not to etc a word of
- not to get a look-in
- not to get a lookin
- not to get a person anywhere
- not to get any change out of
- not to get any change out of a person
- not to get any change out of a situation
- not to get anywhere
- not to get much change out of
- not to get much change out of a person
- not to get much change out of a situation
- not to give a bugger
- not to give a button
- not to give a continental
- not to give a crap