adjective
- relating to or resembling the Socratic method of eliciting new ideas from another
[Full Dark House — Christopher Fowler]
Lexicon
noun (ARCHAIC)
meekness; gentleness.
[“Writing Past the Wall, or the Passion According to H.C.” (Introduction to Hélène Cixous’s Coming to Writing and Other Essays) — Susan Rubin Suleiman]
adj. (literary)
- made of or likened to marble: the marmoreal skin took on the flush of color.
[The Waves — Virginia Woolf]