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protreptic, a. and n.|prəʊˈtrɛptɪk|
[as adj. ad. Gr. προτρεπτικ-ός fitted to urge on, hortative, instructive, f. πρό pro-2 + τρέπ-ειν to turn, direct the course of; as n. ad. late L. protrepticon (-um) = Gr. προτρεπτικόν, neuter of the adj.]
A. adj. Directive, instructive, didactic.
1658Phillips, Protreptick, doctrinal, or giving instructions. 1850Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. (1854) I. 47 The discipline of the habit or character he [Clement] would call protreptic.
B. n. A book, writing, or speech intended to exhort or instruct; an exhortation, instruction.
1656Blount Glossogr., Protreptick, a book of instruction, a doctrinal. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 125 To rank Anaximander amongst the Divine Philosophers, as he [Clement] doth in his Protreptick to the Greeks. Ibid. 371 That this Pythagorick Prayer was directed to the Supreme Numen and King of Gods, Jamblichus thus declares in his Protrepticks. 1899A. B. Cook in Classical Rev. Nov. 418/1 In the mind of Ischomachus' wife the bear-dance..bulked larger than the protreptics of her husband.
So proˈtreptical a., of protreptic nature.
1667–8Bp. Ward Serm. Infidelity (1670) 3 The means used..are partly Didactical, and partly Protreptical. 1895R. G. Moulton Proverbs p. x, Early proverbs are philosophical, not protreptical. |