"elench" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Latin elenchus, from Ancient Greek ἔλεγχος (élenkhos, “refutation, scrutiny”); compare Old French elenche. Doublet of elenchus.",
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          "ref": "1599, Thomas Blundeville, The Art of Logicke, London: Matthew Lownes, published 1619, Book 6, Chapter 2, p. 186:",
          "text": "Reprehension or Elench […] is a Syllogisme, which gathereth a conclusion contrary to the assertion of the respondent, as if a man would defend Medea not to love her childe, because she killed it, another might reason against him in this manner: every Mother loveth her child: but Medea is a Mother: Ergo, Medea loveth her child: the Conclusion of this Syllogisme is contrarie to the first Assertion […]",
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        "That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces or refutes an antagonist; a refutation."
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        "(logic) That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces or refutes an antagonist; a refutation."
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          "ref": "1644, John Milton, Areopagitica, page 40:",
          "text": "But of these Sophisms and Elenchs of marchandize I skill not […]",
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          "ref": "1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 4, p. 10:",
          "text": "This fallacy in the first delusion Satan put upon Eve, and his whole tentation might be the same Elench continued; so when he said, Ye shall not die, that was in his equivocation, ye shall not incurre a present death, or a destruction immediatly ensuing your transgression.",
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        "(obsolete) A specious argument; a sophism."
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