apodictical

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English

Etymology

From apodictic +‎ -al.

Adjective

apodictical (comparative more apodictical, superlative most apodictical)

  1. (archaic) Apodictic; being clearly demonstrable; certain.
    • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.10:
      For holding an Apodictical knowledge, and assured science of its verity, to perswade their apprehensions unto a plurality of gods in the world, were to make Euclide believe there were more than one Center in a Circle [...].