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thetic, a. (n.)|ˈθɛtɪk|
[ad. Gr. θετικ-ός such as is placed or is fit to be placed; positive, affirmative, f. θέτος placed, f. root θε- to place.]
1. Characterized by laying down or setting forth; involving positive statement: cf. thesis 4.
1678Gale Crt. Gentiles III. Pref., To render our Discourse the lesse offensive, we have cast it into a thetic and dogmatic method, rather than agonistic and polemic. 1837E. Bickersteth Life Francke iv. 61 Thetic and historical divinity were not the fields which Francke had chosen to lecture upon. 1882A. M. Fairbairn in Contemp. Rev. Dec. 862 His [Mohammed's] genius was not thetic, but synthetic, not creative but constructive.
2. Pros. That bears the thesis; stressed.
1815J. Grant in Monthly Mag. XXXIX. 303 The first syllable of each being thetic or emphatic and the remainder of the foot being in arsis or remiss.
b. ‘Beginning with a thesis’ (Cent. Dict. 1891).
B. n. (pl.) thetics (nonce-wd.), the art of laying down principles or putting forth propositions.
1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xvi. v. (1873) VI. 182 Polemics, Thetics, Exegetics. |