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sylloˈgistical, a. Now rare.
[f. as prec. + -al1: see -ical.]
= prec. adj.
a1529Skelton Replyc. 97 In your dialecticall And principles silogisticall, If ye to remembraunce call Howe [etc.]. 1563[see demonstration 3]. 1570Dee Math Pref. b iij b, Hard enough to frame to the Conclusion Syllogisticall. 1592in J. Morris Troubles Cath. Forefathers (1877) 22 The poor man unlearned, having by chance read Seaton's Logic, to the interrogatories of the bishop and his chaplain made such syllogistical answers that they thought him a great clerk. 1600W. Watson Decacordon Pref. (1602) A v b, Arguments sillogisticall, enthimematicall and inductiue. 1653Gataker Vind. Annot. Jer. 131 Let your Argument be drawn into a syllogistical form. 1674Hickman Quinquart. Hist. Ep. (ed. 2) a 3 b, They had strange Schools, in which a man could never hear a Syllogistical Disputation. 1697tr. Burgersdicius' Logic ii. ix. 41 In that [sc. the first figure] there appears the Necessity of the Syllogistical Sequel, and the Dictum of All and None. 1698Stillingfl. Answ. Locke's 2nd Let. 120 Here we have no general principles; no Criterion, no Antecedents and Consequents; no Syllogistical Methods of Demonstration.
b. Addicted to reasoning by syllogisms; dealing in syllogisms.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe Wks. 1905 III. 185 A colony of criticall Zenos, should they sinnow their sillogisticall cluster⁓fistes in one bundle to confute and disproue mouing. 1674Hickman Quinquart. Hist. (ed. 2) 16 He is no Syllogistical man, and therefore I will not tie him to the strict rules of argumentation. 1837Fraser's Mag. XV. 393 A peripatetic logician, as disputatious and as syllogistical as any of the Magistri nostri.
†c. Corresponding or agreeing like the propositions in a syllogism; consistent. Obs. nonce-use.
1672Marvell Reh. Transp. (1673) II. 68 That it should remain upon Record how Syllogistical a life his hath been to the Stile and Principles that he has manag'd and prosecuted. |