单词 | ergotist |
释义 | † ergotistn. Obsolete. A quibbler, pedantic logician. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > [noun] > practitioner of ergonist1593 ergo1597 subtilist1610 subtilizer1611 ob-and-soller1678 ergoteerer1687 splitter1699 ergotist1739 subtlist1829 straw-splitter1844 hair-splitter1851 pilpulist1859 ergoteur1881 1739 E. Carter tr. F. Algarotti Sir I. Newton's Philos. Explain'd I. 205 Declaiming..against the antient Philosophy..stigmatizing those who profess it with the Title of Ergotists. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1739 |
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