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Definition of Logomachies
1. logomachy [n] - See also: logomachy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Logomachies
Literary usage of Logomachies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cyclopædia;: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.by Abraham Rees by Abraham Rees (1819)
"Л comic poet, quoted by Athenaeus, thus ridicules the logomachies of Zeno and
his followers : ш .... logomachies ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1874)
"... that in the essay he has written he has " confounded the little knowledge we
possess, in empty and confused logomachies," but I would certainly have ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1818)
"... what tiresome collation of MSS. what argute emendations of text, what jejune
criticisms, what dull dissertations, what ponderous logomachies might have ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1819)
"All these disputes, owing to the indefinite and varying sense of the terms in
which they must be expressed, necessarily run into mere logomachies; ..."
5. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1857)
"... entitled " Le Livre jaune, ou Conversations sur les logomachies."—-Bale, 1748,)
t See the pamphlet licensed, Nov. llth, 1699, and printed in the year ..."
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