Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Holding the judgment in check.
- noun One who suspends judgment.
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Examples
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For what it's worth, it's "ephectic" in my Methuen Australia revised edition 1982, so that one probably isn't the author's fault.
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As you can see from the abstract noun employed in the second sentence, it should be ephectic a fine word, I must say, deserving of better citations than the anodyne ones provided by the OED: 1693 Urquhart, The Schools of the Pyrronian..
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Sceptick, and Ephectick Sects"; 1883 Saintsbury, "Montaigne's attitude was ephectic".
pavonine commented on the word ephectic
skeptical,unconvinced,dubious
Beckett,The Unnamable
November 9, 2007