Elenctical

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Elenctic \E*lenc"tic\, Elenctical \E*lenc"tic*al\, a. [Gr.?.]
     (Logic)
     Serving to refute; refutative; -- applied to indirect modes
     of proof, and opposed to {deictic}.
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