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Definition of Choplogic
1. n. One who bandies words or is very argumentative.
Definition of Choplogic
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of chop logic) ¹
2. Noun. (alternative spelling of chop logic) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Choplogic
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Choplogic
Literary usage of Choplogic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare, Evangeline Maria O'Connor (1901)
"choplogic (to bandy words, quibble), Romeo and Juliet, iii. 5. Chopping (changeable),
Richard II., v. 3. Choruses, are introduced at the beginning of each ..."
2. The Diary of Master William Silence: A Study of Shakespeare & of Elizabethan by Dodgson Hamilton Madden (1897)
"... profession a tinker,' who was on his own showing' fourteen pence on the score
for sheer ale.'4 A troublesome knave was he who was known as choplogic. ..."
3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... also, something impossible to swallow or get over. Lyly, Euphues (ed. Arber, p.
321) ; Mydas, iv. 3 (end). choplogic. a contentious, sophistical arguer. ..."
4. Making Life Worth While: A Book on Health--and More by Herbert Wescott Fisher (1910)
"... we adopt that dishonest course of choplogic, we shall stub our noses against
a mocking paradox. It is not for nothing that, even among the civilized, ..."
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