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Pertaining to, or caused by, a blow; sudden; abrupt. [R.] H. Bushnell.

Not apodeictic; undemonstrable. [R.]

Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction. Brougham. Sir Wm. Hamilton.

So as to be evident beyond contradiction.

Same as Apodeictic.

Direct; proving directly; -- applied to reasoning, and opposed to elenchtic or refutative.

n a manner to show or point out; directly; absolutely; definitely. When Christ spake it deictically. Hammond.

Serving to show or exhibit; as, an endeictic dialogue, in the Platonic philosophy, is one which exhibits a specimen of skill. Enfield.

Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.

Serving to explain; demonstrative.

Asserting that a thing is; -- opposed to problematical and apodeictical.

, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat (Gronias nigrilabrus); the mud cat (Pilodictic oilwaris), the stone cat (Noturus flavus); the sea cat (Arius felis), etc. This name is also sometimes applied to the wolf fish. See Bullhrad.

Serving to refute; refutative; -- applied to indirect modes of proof, and opposed to deictic.

A species of antelope (Procapra picticauda), inhabiting Thibet.

ind. According to Kant, the quality of propositions, as assertory, problematical, or apodeictic.