elenctic
adjUK /ɨˈlɛŋktɪk/ · US /əˈlɛŋk.tɪk/
Etymology From Ancient Greek ἐλενκτικός (elenktikós, “refutative”).
1
Serving to refute, refutative, especially as part of a systematic interrogation; pertaining to rhetorical elenchus or cross-examination.
- ‘What lady?’ he asked in the elenctic tones of Lewis Carroll's caterpillar.1941, Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Penguin 1971 edition, page 101:
- Derived terms
- elenctic method