Word of the Day for Friday, July 15, 2011
apodictic \ap-uh-DIK-tik\, adjective:
1. Necessarily true or logically certain.
2. Incontestable because of having been demonstrated or proved to be demonstrable.
The apodictic truth of the matter is the B.O. is an unrepentant socialist-Marxist!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
Though she might caution her unborn child, Phoebe's more than accustomed to Sasha's apodictic utterances, delivered in the husky voice that had once intoxicated the audiences of Warsaw's Yiddish art theater.-- Rebecca Goldstein, Mazel
They might, if we could get apodictic proof that there was no paper in Dahlmann's wallet containing the answers, but we can't.-- Rex Stout, Before Midnight
Apodictic evolves from the Greek apodeiktikós, "proving fully."
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