special-plead
/ˌspɛʃlˈpliːd/verb
1 [with object] To use special pleading towards (a person, etc.), or in defence of (an argument, etc.). Now rare.
- With early use compare special pleading..
2 [no object] To use special pleading or sophistical argument.
Origin
Early 18th century; earliest use found in Law Executors & Administrators. From special + plead, after special pleading.
- reductive
- reductively
- reductiveness
- reductivism
- reductivist
- reduit
- redund
- redundancy
- redundancy check
- redundant
- redundantee
- redundant hyperbola
- redundantise
- redundantize
- redundantly
- red underwing
- red-up
- reduplicate
- reduplication
- reduplicative
- reduplicative paramnesia
- reduplicatory
- reduviid
- reduvioid
- redux