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tautologize, v.|tɔːˈtɒlədʒaɪz|
[f. tautology + -ize. (The Gr. equivalent was ταὐτολογεῖν.) Cf. apologize.]
intr. To repeat the same thing in the same or different words; to use tautology. Also with it (quot. 1656).
1607Topsell Serpents (1658) 761 To take occasion to tautologize, or to speak one thing twice. 1615Jackson Creed iv. iv. §1 Even the most acute amongst the school⁓men whiles they seek to clear this doubt do but falter and tautologize. 1656S. H. Gold. Law 1 We are constrained..to Tautologize it in repetitions, even to a wearying of our selves and the world with words. 16..Plutarch's Mor. IV. 220 (L.) The tautologizing babler, if he be a physitian, certainly is more troublesome than the disease.
Hence tauˈtologizer, one who tautologizes; a tautologist.
1657J. Watts Vind. Ch. Eng. 241 A vain babler, a tautologizer and a vain repeater. |