syllogisticallyadv.

1587 D. Fenner Def. Godlie Ministers sig. Ei I meane not to inferre all absurdities on his sayings, which might Sillogisticallie bee deducted out of his wordes.

1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. ii f. 9 In placing them axiomatically, syllogistically, or methodically, wee argue some other thing either by explication or confirmation.

1619 J. Sempill Sacrilege Sacredly Handled App. 10 What more reason is there heere to separate Tithing from the Patriarch and the Promises, then to separate Blessing, seeing all three are so syllogistically wouen and interlaced?

1630 T. Randolph Aristippus 12 If you discourse but a little while with a Courtier, you presently betray your learned Ignorance, answering him he concludes not Syllogistically, and asking in what Mood and figure he speakes in.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. xvii. 343 A Man knows first, and then he is able to prove syllogistically. So that Syllogism comes after Knowledge, and then a Man has little or no need of it.

1782 E. Blower George Bateman II. 46 Consider the matter syllogistically. It is the voice of the public that confers infamy, but the public will never know of this transaction; therefore the public cannot confer infamy on you.

1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Ernest Maltravers I. i. xvi. 153 No man can mathematically or syllogistically contend, that the world, which a God made, and a Saviour visited, was designed to be damned!

1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic xi. 351 We must reason syllogistically whenever we use language with any perception of its meaning.

1872 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) II. vi. viii. 99 In the foregoing section..we saw that there are many inferences of a kind so certain as to be called axiomatic, which do not admit of having their terms arranged syllogistically.