epiplectic

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek ἐπιπληκτικός (epiplēktikós, “given to rebuking”), from ἐπίπληξις (epíplēxis, “rebuke”). See epiplexis.

Adjective

epiplectic

1. (rhetoric) Of or pertaining to epiplexis.
   • 1979, Donald J. Mastronarde, Contact and Discontinuity: Some Conventions of Speech and Action on the Greek Tragic Stage, page 47:

     With Kessels' text there is no subordinate "who?" but only the epiplectic "why?"