Usually means: Exposing contradictions through Socratic questioning.
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  1. elenchtical: Merriam-Webster
  2. Elenchtical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  3. Elenchtical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  4. elenchtical: FreeDictionary.org
  5. elenchtical: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Elenchtical)

adjective:  Alternative form of elenctic [Serving to refute, refutative, especially as part of a systematic interrogation; pertaining to rhetorical elenchus or cross-examination.]

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