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.