epiplectic

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

epiplectic

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