apotreptic

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Rhetoric designed to dissuade.
    — The sweeping mock-Catonian attack of Juv. 6, an apotreptic against marriage that quickly turns into a categorical disparagement of women.
形容词 adj.
  1. Designed to dissuade.
    — The original sacrifice of the lamb in the land of Egypt was chiefly designed...to avert that judgement (viz. the death of the first-born) from the Israelites...but the annual passover...was rather a commemoration of the deliverance of the Israelites from that calamity, than an apotreptic sacrifice.

词形变化

more apotreptic comparative most apotreptic superlative apotreptics plural
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