epichirema

English

Alternative forms

• epicheirema

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐπιχείρημα (epikheírēma).

Noun

epichirema (plural epichiremas or epichiremata)

1. (rhetoric, logic) A syllogism in which the proof of the major or minor premise, or both, is introduced with the premises themselves, and the conclusion is derived in the ordinary manner.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “epichirema”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)