apotreptic
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]apotreptic (comparative more apotreptic, superlative most apotreptic)
- Designed to dissuade.
- 1724, John Johnson, A Discourse on the Unbloody Sacrifice, and Altar, Unvailed and Supported, in which the nature of the Eucharist is explained...[full title runs to about 150 words], Robert Knaplock, read in The Theological Works of the Rev. John Johnson, M.A., Vicar of Cranbrook in the Diocese of Canterbury, Volume 1, John Henry Parker (1847), page 176
- 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.
- 1985, W. J. (Willem Jacob) Verdenius, A Commentary on Hesiod: Works and Days, VV. 1-382, E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 76
- The story of Prometheus provides the introduction to the protreptic part of the poem (the exhortation to work), the story of the world-periods introduces the apotreptic part (the admonition to avoid wrongdoing).
- 2006, John Bussanich, Socrates and Religious Experience, read in Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Rachana Kamtekar (editors), A Companion to Socrates, Blackwell, →ISBN, page 207
- He draws out the purificatory implications of Apollo's apotreptic intervention when an uneasy feeling rises from the mantic spirit within him to meet the voice of the god.
- 1724, John Johnson, A Discourse on the Unbloody Sacrifice, and Altar, Unvailed and Supported, in which the nature of the Eucharist is explained...[full title runs to about 150 words], Robert Knaplock, read in The Theological Works of the Rev. John Johnson, M.A., Vicar of Cranbrook in the Diocese of Canterbury, Volume 1, John Henry Parker (1847), page 176
Noun
[edit]apotreptic (plural apotreptics)
- Rhetoric designed to dissuade.
- 2001, Kirk Freudenburg, Satires of Rome: threatening poses from Lucilius to Juvenal, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 253:
- The sweeping mock-Catonian attack of Juv. 6, an apotreptic against marriage that quickly turns into a categorical disparagement of women.
- 2001, Niall Livingstone, A Commentary on Isocrates' Busiris, E. J. Brill,, →ISBN, page 9:
- Each category [of rhetoric] is sub-divided: symbouliutic into protreptic and apotreptic, dicanic into prosecution and defence..., and epideictic into praise and blame or dispraise.
- 2003, Keith Sidwell, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini's De curialium miseriis and Peter of Blois, read in Zweder R.W.M. von Martels, Arie Johan Vanderjagt (editors), Pius II, "El Piu Expeditivo Pontefice": selected studies on Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (1405-1464), E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 103
- The personalisation of Poggio's material by the fiction that the Lucían and Valerius Maximus passages were part of a successful apotreptic by his father to stop two young Sienese from entering courtly life contains another significant reminder of Poggio's De infelicitate principum.