1.
[syn: apodictic, apodeictic]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Apodeictic \Ap"o*deic"tic\, Apodictic \Ap`o*dic"tic\,
Apodeictical \Ap`o*deic"tic*al\, Apodictical \Ap`o*dic"tic*al\,
a. [L. apodicticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to point out, to show by
argument; ? from + ? to show.]
Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction.
--Brougham. Sir Wm. Hamilton.
[1913 Webster] Apodeictically
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
apodeictic
adj 1: of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain
[syn: apodictic, apodeictic]