Logodaedalist vs Logodaedaly - What's the difference?
logodaedalist | logodaedaly | Related terms |
One skilled in logodaedaly, that is, the use of words or wordplay.
*1886 , Immanuel Kant, John William Semple, Henry Calderwood, The metaphysic of ethics , page 154
*:But when pedants have the effrontery to address the public from the pulpit or the chair, in technical phraseology, calculated singly for the school, that cannot be properly charged on any philosophic system , any more than the follies of a logodaedalist are to be charged on grammar.
(rare) Skill or cleverness in the coining of new words
* 1826 , ,
* 1955 , , Vintage (1997), ISBN 978-0-67972316-5, page 249,
* 2001 , Lewis O. Saum,
A skillfully or cleverly coined new word.
Logodaedalist is a related term of logodaedaly.
As nouns the difference between logodaedalist and logodaedaly
is that logodaedalist is one skilled in logodaedaly, that is, the use of words or wordplay while logodaedaly is (rare) skill or cleverness in the coining of new words.logodaedalist
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(en noun)logodaedaly
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A Letter to a Political Economist,
- In questions of philosophy or divinity, that have occupied the learned, I could bring ten instances of logodaedaly , or verbal legerdemain, which have perilously confirmed prejudices, and withstood the advancement of truth, in consequence of the neglect of verbal debate , i. e. strict discussion of terms.
- He mimed and mocked me. His allusions were definitely highbrow. He was well-read. He knew French. He was versed in logodaedaly and logomancy.
Eugene Field and His Age, University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 978-0803242876, page 238,
- In "Sharps and Flats," the reader might well get instruction on the proper use of farther and further or an essay on logodaedaly .