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‖ nugæ|ˈnjuːdʒiː|
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pl. Trifles. spec. in phr. nugæ difficiles Philos., matters of trifling importance over which a disproportionate amount of time may be taken owing to their difficulty.
1710Berkeley Princ. Human Knowl. 170 We may perhaps..look on all Inquiries about Numbers, only as so many difficiles nugæ, so far as they are not subservient to practise. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 15 In all these attempts..there is a great deal that cannot but be regarded as philosophical nugæ. 1867Mill Inaug. Addr. 39, I am often tempted to ask the favourites of nature and fortune, whether all the serious and important work of the world is done, that their time and energy can be spared for these nugae difficiles? 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xxviii. 662 Such painstaking attempts..to prove all necessary judgments to be analytic..seem accordingly but nugae difficiles, and little better than wastes of ink and paper. |