Usually means: Method of refuting by questioning.
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  1. elenchus: Merriam-Webster
  2. elenchus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elenchus: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Elenchus, elenchus: Wordnik
  5. elenchus: Wiktionary
  6. elenchus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. elenchus: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Elenchus, elenchus: Dictionary.com
  9. Elenchus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Elenchus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. elenchus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Elenchus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. elenchus: FreeDictionary.org
  14. elenchus: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. elenchus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)

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  1. Elenchus: Encyclopedia

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  1. Elenchus: Medical dictionary

(Note: See elenchi as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (elenchus)

noun:  (rhetoric) A technique of argument associated with Socrates wherein the arguer asks the interlocutor to agree with a series of premises and conclusions, ending with the arguer's intended point.

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