syllogize
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- nonsyllogizing adjective
- syllogization noun
- syllogizer noun
Etymology
Origin of syllogize
1375–1425; late Middle English silogysen < Late Latin syllogizāre < Greek syllogízesthai to reason, equivalent to syl- syl- + logízesthai to reckon, infer, equivalent to lóg ( os ) discourse ( logos ) + -izesthai -ize
Example Sentences
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The great question of the future will be to syllogize or not to syllogize.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
It is then only that they syllogize unwelcome truths.
From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William
But she had had experience of her, and knew the instinctive divination that got at objects and results where reason in full-grown man would syllogize into the darkness of despair.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by Wilson, John Mackay
The men who attack abuses are not so much to be dreaded by the reigning house of Superstition as those who, as Dante says, syllogize hateful truths.
From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell
But the human intellect can syllogize, and know causes in effects; all of which is the discursive method.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
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