STRONGS G4086:
πιθανολογίᾳ,
πιθανολογιας,
ἡ (from
πιθανολόγος; and this from
πιθανός, on which see
πειθός, and
λόγος),
speech adapted to persuade, discourse in which probable arguments are adduced; once so in classical Greek, viz.
Plato, Theact., p. 162 e.; in a bad sense,
persuasiveness of speech, specious discourse leading others into error:
Colossians 2:4, and several times in ecclesiastical writers.
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