\Di`a*no*et"ic\, a. [Gr. ?; dia` through + ? to
revolve in the mind.] (Metaph.)
Pertaining to the discursive faculty, its acts or products.
      I would employ . . . dianoetic to denote the operation
      of the discursive, elaborative, or comparative faculty.
                                               --Sir W.
                                               Hamilton.