apodictic
Americanadjective
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incontestable because of having been demonstrated or proved to be demonstrable.
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Logic. (of a proposition) necessarily true or logically certain.
Other Word Forms
- apodeictically adverb
- apodictically adverb
Etymology
Origin of apodictic
1645–55; < Latin apodīcticus < Greek apodeiktikós proving fully. See apo-, deictic
Example Sentences
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She was 100 pounds of pure, apodictic muscle, her eyes tawny, her white whiskers jutting from her cheek pads like porcupine quills, her teeth as thick as thumbs.
From New York Times
“You cannot apodictically separate security and asylum policy,” said Stephan Mayer, a senior German lawmaker from the center-right Christian Social Union.
From Washington Post
He is not interested in the merely schematic character of the thought processes, but in their function as mediators of apodictic truth.
From Project Gutenberg
Those things are only here touched they are more apodictically confirmed above, and may be seen made out at large in Apol.
From Project Gutenberg
"You really can't accuse me of being young," she apodictically pronounced.
From Project Gutenberg
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