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διαιρ-ετικός , ή, όν,
A.logically distinguishable, Pl.Sph.226c.
2. able to divide, separative, Arist.Pr.884b35; “δ. δύναμις” Plu.2.1026d, cf. 952b.
3. given to resolving diphthongs, “-κώτατοι οἱ Ἴωνες” A.D.Pron.95.4.
4. suited for breaking up, “λίθων” Gal.19.694.
II. in Logic, by means of division, “ὅροι” Arist.APo.91b39; διαιρετική, ἡ, as a branch of Dialectic, Ammon.in APr.7.31, cf. Iamb.Comm.Math.20; “δ. μέθοδος” Gal.10.115; δ. συλλογισμός disjunctive syllogism, with contradictory alternatives, Stoic.2.87. Adv. “-κῶς” Plu.2.802f.
III. Rhet., concerned with distribution under heads, “τέχνη” Hermog.Inv.3.4, cf. Stat.6, Lib. Decl.49Intr.2.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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