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• a variation of argol.

argal

¹ American  

[ahr-guhl] / ˈɑr gəl /

noun

1. argali.

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argal ² American  

[ahr-guhl] / ˈɑr gəl /

conjunction

Literary.

1. therefore: used facetiously to indicate that the reasoning that had gone before or the conclusion that follows is specious or absurd.

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argal British  

/ ˈɑːɡəl /

noun

1. another name for argol

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Etymology

Origin of argal

First recorded in 1595–1605; probably representing a popular Early Modern English pronunciation of Latin ergō, with ĕr becoming lowered to ar by the 17th century, the laxing of ō, and excrescent l; see ergo

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Example Sentences

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argal

The argument here is, you observe, that because an apple in the course of nature rots soon after it mellows, argal a man cannot mellow his spirit with culture without decaying soon afterwards.

From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier

Thompson had shot a fine argal or Rocky Mountain sheep that morning, and the broiled steaks were giving forth a most acceptable odor.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various

Thy father loved me for my lack of officiousness, argal, to serve thee is a religious duty incumbent on me.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

None the less his jaw hardened beneath his fair beard and he answered, 'I have as yet written no letters—litteras nullas scripsi: argal nihil scio.'

From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford Madox Ford

There was never perhaps a more extraordinary syllogism since the argal of Shakespeare’s gravedigger.

From The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 by Various

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