tautologizev.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 236 To take occasion to tautologize, or to speake one thing twice.

1615 T. Jackson Justifying Faith §1. iv. 11 Even the most acute amongst the Schoolemen whiles they seeke to cleere this doubt, doe but faulter or tautologize.

1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 1 We are constrained..to Tautologize it in repetitions, even to a wearying of our selves and the world with words.

1752 J. Smith Portrait of Old Age (ed. 3) 22 That in this brief description the wise man should tautologize, is not to be supposed.

1830 Christian Observer Sept. 567/2 His manner is remarkably his own; in him it is native, and it is simple and impressive; he does not declaim, or exaggerate, or tautologize in the bad sense of those expressions.

1871 J. F. W. Herschel Familiar Lect. Sci. Subj. 417 To suggest right and virtuous courses of action among the many possible ones more readily, more powerfully, and more suggestively (if one may tautologize so far) than those of a contrary nature.

1948 Philosophy 23 348 Reason left to itself can only tautologize.

1988 Village Voice 23 Feb. 71/4 These records are vacuous, contrived, redundant. But to fling that adjectival triumvirate at any popmode these days is to tautologize.

2003 T. Campbell et al. Protecting Human Rights 46 The latter trivializes because it tautologizes.

1657 J. Watts Scribe, Pharisee 241 A vain babler, a tautologizer and a vain repeater.

1990 A. Davies Dirty Faxes 44 You toffee-nosed tautologiser.