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Definition of Cacology
1. n. Bad speaking; bad choice or use of words.
Definition of Cacology
1. Noun. Poor diction or choice of words. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cacology
1. a bad choice of words [n CACOLOGIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cacology
Literary usage of Cacology
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1906)
"... and unintelligible name, viz. cacology. I shall try to show that is a valuable
and important subject for research. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1857)
"COMMON cacology. z. It was, I think, in Russell's Life of Moore that I saw it
stated of Lord Castlereagh that he always used the phrase to join issue as ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1878)
"... and of cacology ; ' by its aid alone can we account for those remarkable
rudimentary organs —eyes that see not, wings that do not fly, muscles that do ..."
4. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1898)
"The cacology of some of the Acts passed prior to 1710 occasionally renders them
difficult to transfer from the un- punctuated manuscript rolls into anything ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1876)
"... and professed to remedy cacology and teach elocution, after the manner of old
Sheridan. Thence, about 1792, I was transferred to Portarlington. ..."
6. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1863)
"Our teacher contrived a method of his own for mending our cacology, even at our
noonday sports. He prepared a small piece of board or shingle, ..."
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