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Definition of Dyslogistic
1. Adjective. Expressing disapproval. "Dyslogistic terms like `nitwit' and `scalawag'"
Definition of Dyslogistic
1. a. Unfavorable; not commendatory; -- opposed to eulogistic.
Definition of Dyslogistic
1. Adjective. Expressing censure or disapproval ¹
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Definition of Dyslogistic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dyslogistic
Literary usage of Dyslogistic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"Any eulogistic may thus be sarcastically converted into a dyslogistic : hence many
... When, therefore, dyslogistic phraseology is applied to that in which ..."
2. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1839)
"By degrees they acquired, some of them an eulogistic, some a dyslogistic, cast.
This change extended itself, as the moral sense (if so loose and delusive a ..."
3. Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England by William Whewell (1852)
"But these eulogistic and dyslogistic names are ... If men were not eulogistic
and dyslogistic in their way of speaking of actions, how should they express ..."
4. Works by Sydney Smith (1858)
"Mischievous fallacies also circulate from the convertible use of what Mr. B.
is pleased to call dyslogistic and eulogistic terms. ..."
5. Agnosticism by Robert Flint (1903)
"gistic from those who regard it as a true, right, or useful tendency, or which
is not implicitly dyslogistic f rotn those who regard it as a false, wrong, ..."
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