a. [ad. Gr. ἐνθυμηματικός, f. ἐνθύμημα (see next).] Of, or pertaining to, or of the nature of an enthymeme; containing an enthymeme; consisting of enthymemes. Also Enthymematical a. in same sense.
1588. Fraunce, Lawiers Log, II. ix. 98 b. An argument called Sorites by this enthymematicall progression.
1681. Hobbes, Rhet., II. xxii. 84. Enthymematical; that is, have in themselves the force of an Enthymeme.
1827–53. Whately, Logic, II. iv. § 7. Here the Minor Premiss is what is called an Enthymematic sentence.
1860. Abp. Thomson, Laws Th., § 110. 239.
