anatreptic

From Ancient Greek [Term?] (“ἀνατρέπω, to overturn, upset, refute”).

anatreptic (not comparable)

1. rebutting; overthrowing; defeating; applied to Plato's refutative dialogues.
   • 1791, William Enfield, Johann Jakob Brucker, The History of Philosophy:

     The Agonistic dialogues , supposed to resemble the combat , were either Endeictic, as exhibiting a specimen of skill , or Anatreptic, presenting the spectacle of a perfect defeat .

• anatreptically

“anatreptic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.