Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Beginning with, constituting, or relating to the thesis in prosody.
- adjective Presented dogmatically; arbitrarily prescribed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In ancient prosody: Pertaining to the thesis, or metrically accented part of a foot.
- Beginning with a thesis: opposed to anacrustic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a
thesis (in prosody) - adjective
Dogmatic
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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This meme is so thetic but I love it (although this one wasn't as funny). cephista
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This meme is so thetic but I love it (although this one wasn't as funny). cephista
Hitler Flummoxed by 2009
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"That's terrible," Woodrow said, genuinely sympa - thetic.
Stalling 2010
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[Channelling generic LA teenager] I'm, like, sooo pa-thetic.
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In confronting the tradition of philosophy with his central insight of the radically finite temporality inherent in the Da-Sein experience, Heidegger discovers that the entire tradition of Occidental philosophy constituted a basic drift away from this chiaroscuro experience of be-ing and developed over the centuries into a metaphysics of permanent presence now coming to its perfection in the Ge-Stell syn-thetic com-positioning of modern technology in the form of global matrixes.
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In confronting the tradition of philosophy with his central insight of the radically finite temporality inherent in the Da-Sein experience, Heidegger discovers that the entire tradition of Occidental philosophy constituted a basic drift away from this chiaroscuro experience of be-ing and developed over the centuries into a metaphysics of permanent presence now coming to its perfection in the Ge-Stell syn-thetic com-positioning of modern technology in the form of global matrixes.
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The thetic and the anti-thetic have to meet and join in the synthetic.
There has been a great misunderstanding and deliberate misreading of the fourfold society that the ancients saw Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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The thetic and the anti-thetic have to meet and join in the synthetic.
Archive 2008-01-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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Yet at the moment when these cigarettes are revealed to me as a dozen, I have a non-thetic consciousness of my adding activity.
Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness Gallagher, Shaun 2006
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The military were closer in age to the demonstrators and many were black, and the demonstrators expected them to be more sympa-thetic.
1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004
thebighenry commented on the word thetic
Dad's dogma.
May 3, 2008