The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
elench — elench; elench·tic; elench·ti·cal; … English syllables
elench — (G). Disgrace; test … Dictionary of word roots and combining forms
elench — n. (Log.) 1. Elenchus, refutatory syllogism, syllogism forcing contradiction (upon the oppenent). 2. (Rare.) Sophism, paralogism, fallacy, specious argument … New dictionary of synonyms
elench — noun ( s) Etymology: Latin elenchus 1. obsolete : elenchus 2. obsolete … Useful english dictionary
Zetetic Elench — The Zetetic Elench are a fictional group from Iain M Banks science fiction Culture Novels . They are a splinter group of the Culture and appear in the novel Excession (1996).Zetetic has its etymology in the Greek ζητείν, to seek. Elench is: that… … Wikipedia
Elenchs — Elench E*lench ([ e]*l[e^][ng]k ), n.; pl. {Elenchs}. [L. elenchus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to convict, confute, prove: cf. OF. elenche.] (Logic) (a) That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
elenchtic — elench·tic … English syllables
elenchtical — elench·ti·cal … English syllables
List of ships of the Culture setting — This is a list of spaceships found in the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks. Most ships in this list are members of The Culture, the hybrid society featured in many of these novels. In this setting, each Culture ship, and some others, is also an… … Wikipedia
Kultur-Zyklus — Die Kultur ist eine fiktive anarchistisch sozialistische und utopische Gesellschaft, die vom schottischen Autor Iain M. Banks erfunden und in mehreren seiner Romane und Kurzgeschichten beschrieben wurde. Die Kultur existiert nach Angaben des… … Deutsch Wikipedia
