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(historical) A stage of the Ancient Greek judicial process in which all of the evidence is produced prior to the trial..
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.
In explicating this work, Zappen points to the work of engaged listening, which can manifest itself in anacrisis, the critical testing of one's views, and/or syncrisis, the critical comparison of opposing views.
Another of Socrates' techniques was anacrisis, meaning luring one's interlocutors (or maybe oneself) into making explicit one's otherwise hidden and taken-for-granted assumptions—in other words, surfacing deep assumptions as explicit propositions.
Use anacrisis when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Anacrisis means (historical) A stage of the Ancient Greek judicial process in which all of the evidence is produced prior to the trial..
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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.
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