Lexicographical Neighbors of Soritic
Literary usage of Soritic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"(soritic.) Ace. 1. A unit [L. äs]. 2. A card marked with a single point or figure,
as an ace of hearts. Sometimes = thesmallest quantity; "not an ace. ..."
2. A New Universal History of the Religious Rites, Ceremonies and Customs of by William Hurd (1814)
"... called Mu- soritic copies, because none of them have entirely escaped the rude
hands of the ..."
3. The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine (1867)
"Many splendid soritic arguments occur in the writings of St. Paul, eg :— diminishes»
it by one grain at a time until the pupil bas to confess that the ..."
4. Diary in France: Mainly on Topics Concerning Education and the Church by Christopher Wordsworth (1845)
"... and you must come at last to what we are, and to what Rome is at the present
day." (This soritic reasoning, by the way, is what Cicero calls ..."
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