-agogic-, -agogue, -agog, -agogic, -agoguery, -agogy

1. Of or pertaining to modeling in wax.
2. Applied to a kind of accent consisting in a lengthening of the time-value of the note; or accenting a musical note by extending it slightly beyond its normal time value. Also called agogic accent.

The use of agogic accents or accenting a musical note by slightly dwelling on it.

1. Spiritual elevation or enlightenment; especially, to understand mysteries.
2. Mystical or spiritual interpretation; an Old Testament typification of something in the New Testament.

Of or pertaining to anagoge; mystical, spiritualized.

Of words and their sense: mystical, spiritual, having a secondary spiritual sense, allegorical.

1. Psychic content of an idealistic or spiritual nature.
2. A mystical interpretation of a word, passage, or text; especially, scriptural exegesis that discovers allusions to heaven or the afterlife.
3. Etymology: from Late Latin anagoge which came from Late Greek anagōgē, and from Greek, anagein, "to refer", from ana-, "up" + agein, "to lead".

1. The methods or techniques used to teach adults.

Mistakenly used to refer to adult education for both male and female learners. “Mistakenly” because andro, -andra- refer only to males.
2. Another erroneous definition is, "the art and science of helping adults learn".

1. A term referring to adult education or the universal education of human beings.
2. Etymology: from Greek anthropo, "human beings, mankind" + -agogy, "leader, to guide, teacher"

An agent for suppressing lactation.

Medicine which stops or reduces secretion of saliva.

A demonstration that does not prove a thing directly, but shows the absurdity or impossibility of denying it.

A reductio ad absurdum, "reduction to absurdity" is disproof of a principle or proposition by showing that it leads to an absurdity when followed to its logical conclusion.