apotreptic

Adjective

 * 1) Designed to dissuade.
 * 2) * 1724, John Johnson, A Discourse on the Unbloody Sacrifice, and Altar, Unvailed and Supported, in which the nature of the Eucharist is explained...[full title runs to about 150 words], Robert Knaplock, read in The Theological Works of the Rev. John Johnson, M.A., Vicar of Cranbrook in the Diocese of Canterbury, Volume 1, John Henry Parker (1847), page 176
 * The original sacrifice of the lamb in the land of Egypt was chiefly designed...to avert that judgement (viz. the death of the first-born) from the Israelites...but the annual passover...was rather a commemoration of the deliverance of the Israelites from that calamity, than an apotreptic sacrifice.
 * 1) * 1985, W. J. (Willem Jacob) Verdenius, A Commentary on Hesiod: Works and Days, VV. 1-382, E. J. Brill, ISBN 9004074651, page 76
 * The story of Prometheus provides the introduction to the protreptic part of the poem (the exhortation to work), the story of the world-periods introduces the apotreptic part (the admonition to avoid wrongdoing).
 * 1) * 2006, John Bussanich, Socrates and Religious Experience, read in Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Rachana Kamtekar (editors), A Companion to Socrates, Blackwell, ISBN 1405108630, page 207
 * He draws out the purificatory implications of Apollo's apotreptic intervention when an uneasy feeling rises from the mantic spirit within him to meet the voice of the god.

Noun

 * 1) Rhetoric designed to dissuade.
 * 2) * 2003, Keith Sidwell, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini's De curialium miseriis and Peter of Blois, read in Zweder R.W.M. von Martels, Arie Johan Vanderjagt (editors), Pius II, "El Piu Expeditivo Pontefice": selected studies on Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (1405-1464), E. J. Brill, ISBN 9004131906, page 103
 * The personalisation of Poggio's material by the fiction that the Lucían and Valerius Maximus passages were part of a successful apotreptic by his father to stop two young Sienese from entering courtly life contains another significant reminder of Poggio's De infelicitate principum.
 * 1) * 2003, Keith Sidwell, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini's De curialium miseriis and Peter of Blois, read in Zweder R.W.M. von Martels, Arie Johan Vanderjagt (editors), Pius II, "El Piu Expeditivo Pontefice": selected studies on Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (1405-1464), E. J. Brill, ISBN 9004131906, page 103
 * The personalisation of Poggio's material by the fiction that the Lucían and Valerius Maximus passages were part of a successful apotreptic by his father to stop two young Sienese from entering courtly life contains another significant reminder of Poggio's De infelicitate principum.