10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LOGOMACHIST»
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logomachist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Dimboxes, Epopts, and Other Quidams: Words to Describe ...
There are two, Shakespeare and Joyce. logomachist (Id gom'a kist) The verbal
stickler who likes to argue about words themselves: "Well, what do you mean by '
liberalism'?" The logomachist eagerly gets into the terminology of argument and ...
2
Cambridge Characteristics in the Seventeenth Century: Or the ...
tive party1, and brought Mountague, whose reputation as a logomachist and a
scholar stood equally high2, an ardent combatant into the arena. The pedantry
and controversial character of the writings of the time will both be found toreceive
...
James Bass Mullinger, 1867
... disputatious word-catcher, or logomachist, who sought to justify his unbelief on
this ground, I should not hesitate to say—“ Never mind whether it is a miracle or
no. Call it what you will ;—but do you believe the fact? Do you believe that Christ
...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, 1853
Hitchcock very judiciously removes that argument from the theater of the
logomachist to the more comprehensible plains of geology. It seems to me that
the proposition of Mr. Tracy, that " there can be no number actually infinite, and
therefore ...
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The Dublin University Magazine
... with the besom of his stern morality ; the Logomachist of the coterie ; the Talus
or Iron Man of argument ; invulnerable, like the son of Thetis, and never exposing
a retreating heel to the shafts of an antagonist ; the future pride and pleasure of ...
from inattention to this custom or fashion, have been and still are sources of
never-ending contention to commentators. Bess. Essr, M.D., and Logomachist.
Cus'rous IN 'run Couzs'rr or stronn (8" S. i. 503.)—-The custom of turning on
meeting a ...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
Perhaps no definition of wealth has been offered, against which a perverse and
ingenious logomachist may not raise some plausible objection. It is clear, that the
only difference between the definition of Lord Lauderdale and Mr. Malthus is that
...
Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths, 1821
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Marginalia: Valckenaer to Zwick
675 acute 5564; elder 3139; New England 3817; old 3257; Plato as 4127;
principles of 4454; Scholastic '354 logodaedaly 238, 3476, 589 "logolatry"6143,
143n logolatry 4426n logomachist 563 logomachy '551. 229. 591, 3589, 91 1,
4136, ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Whalley, H. J. Jackson, 2001
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The Grandiloquent Dictionary - Tenth Anniversary Edition
... others in the use of words or by the use of words logographer - A person who
writes speeches or chronicles historical events logomachist - A person who
engages in a war of words logomachize - To engage in a war of words
logornachy 69.
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Essays, by father Fitz-Eustace
He was, in short, the great logomachist of the age. To propose questions, and
produce explications ; to convince, or be convinced, were, in his opinion, the
grand purposes of human life. He was fond of argument, and delighted in
confounding ...
