epiplectic

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adjective

Of or pertaining to epiplexis.

OriginAncient Greek ἐπιπληκτικός →
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Meanings

adjective
  1. rhetoricOf 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

  1. Ancient Greekἐπιπληκτικός“given to rebuking”
  2. Englishepiplectic

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

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epiplectic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/epiplectic

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Chicago

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