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Webster 1913 Edition
Syllogize
Syl′lo-gize
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Syllogized
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Syllogizing
.] [Gr. [GREEK]: cf. F.
syllogiser
.] To reason by means of syllogisms.
Men have endeavored . . . to teach boys to
syllogize
, or frame arguments and refute them, without any real inward knowledge of the question. I. Watts.
Webster 1828 Edition
Syllogize
SYL'LOGIZE
,Verb.
I.
Men have endeavored to teach boys to syllogize, or to frame arguments and refute them, without real knowledge.
Definition 2024
syllogize
syllogize
English
Verb
syllogize (third-person singular simple present syllogizes, present participle syllogizing, simple past and past participle syllogized)
- To reason or deduce by means of syllogisms.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.11:
- those disputers […] make him to infer and say what he never meant, wresting and wyre-drawing his words to a contrarie sense, arguing and silogizing by the Grammarians privilege […].
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.11: