Crossword-Solution: DEICTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Deictic | a. | Direct; proving directly; -- applied to reasoning, and opposed to elenchtic or refutative. |
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| Context-dependent, in linguistics | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EEAZMC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DEICTIC (1)
Some lawyers are successful in the elenchical mode of argument--to use a logical term--that is, in demolishing the structure of their opponents, while they fail in the deictic, that is, in raising on its ruins an impregnable fabric of their own; but it was difficult to decide which process was the most thorough in the reasoning of Tazewell.
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Appears in: New Yorker.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2023).