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‖ logoˈdædalus Obs.
Pl. -i. Also in anglicized form logodædale.
[mod.L., a. Gr. λογοδαίδαλος, f. λόγο-ς + δαίδαλος cunning.]
One who is cunning in words.
1611? B. Jonson in Coryat's Crudities Charac. Authour, He is a great and bold Carpenter of Words or (to express him in one like his owne) a Logodædale. 1650Trapp Comm., Song Sol. iv. 3 (1660) III. 353 Those Logodædali, learned Asses, that prophanely disdain at the stately plainness of Gods blessed Book. 1664Evelyn tr. Freart's Archit. etc. 121 Least whilest I thus discourse of the Accomplishments of our Artists..I my self be found Logodædalus.
So † logoˈdædalist.
1727Bailey vol. II, Logodædalist, an Inventer or Forger of new Words, and strange Terms. 1806J. Leslie Dict. Synon. Words s.v. Words, Inventor of words, logodædalist. |