anacrisis
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A stage of the Ancient Greek judicial process in which all of the evidence is produced prior to the trial.
noun
An interrogation that provokes its subject to make explicit his or her underlying assumptions and deeply held values.
Example Sentences
- "If the plaintiff failed to appear at the anacrisis, the suit, of course, fell to the 'ground; if the defendant made default, judgment passed against him."
- "It is not in the court of an unaccusing conscience that I am declared righteous, but in the wider sphere of Christ's anacrisis or preliminary scrutiny, for He now takes note of my work, that He may judge a righteous judgment in the great Day.'"
- "At this anacrisis witnesses were interrogated, slaves examined under torture, documents produced, oaths administered, and all those tedious routine processes gone through, which now take place in open court."
- "The litigant then, in making his speech, when he wished to cite the law in support of his argument, could call on the clerk of the court to read the extracts which he had put in at the anacrisis."
- "The whole course of the ordinary suit at law, as carried on at Athens after the Solonian reforms, may be divided into five stages : the summons, the appearance before the magistrate, the preliminary hearing or anacrisis, the trial before the dicastery, and the judgment."
- "Socrates is the archetypal high master of subtle, ironic anacrisis."