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Definition of Logomachist

1. Noun. Someone given to disputes over words.

Definition of Logomachist

1. n. One who contends about words.

Definition of Logomachist

1. Noun. One who starts fights about the meaning of words. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Logomachist

1. One who contends about words. See: Logomachy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Logomachist

Literary usage of Logomachist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1878)
"There are also a series of " Letters Improved, for the logomachist," of neater size and more numerous than the usual cards: the "Portrait Authors," in red ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"EAST, MD, and logomachist. i. 503.) — The custom of turning on meeting a corpse, and following it for some distance, is universal in Ireland, and must have ..."

3. The Persistent Problems of Philosophy: An Introduction to Metaphysics by Mary Whiton Calkins (1912)
"... gives the lie to the conventional conception of Spinoza as a logomachist concerned only with verbal distinctions and with abstract definitions. b. ..."

4. Lives of the Fathers: Sketches of Church History in Biography by Frederick William Farrar (1889)
"As a special pleader and logomachist he is as irritating as Socrates, and ten times as unfair. He frequently arouses our natural antagonism in favour of the ..."

5. Lives of the Fathers: Sketches of Church History in Biography by Frederic William Farrar (1907)
"As a special pleader and logomachist he is as irritating as Socrates, and ten times as unfair. He frequently arouses our natural antagonism in favour of the ..."

6. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1839)
"What purpose can be answered by any pretended definition of a miracle ? If I met with a disputatious word- catcher, or logomachist, who sought to ..."

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