| 单词 | logomachy |
| 释义 | logomachy|ləˈgɒməkɪ|
Forms: 6–7 logomachie, 7– logomachy; also 7–8 in Latin form logomachia. pl. -ies; also 8 -ys.
[ad. Gr. λογοµαχία, f. λόγο-ς word + -µαχία fighting.]
1. Contention about words; an instance of this.
1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 169 Of so high a science they have made a certaine Logomachie. 1675Tullie Let. Baxter 16 Which you seem to place amongst your Logomachies, or Logicall notions. 1711tr. Werenfels (title) A Discourse of Logomachys, or Controversies about Words. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. Arianism 25 The Sophistry call'd Logomochia [sic], or punning with and upon Words. 1722Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. ii. 122 This quarrel tending to vain logomachies..ended in confusion. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. iii. xv. §1 (1876) 341 The reproach of logomachy which is brought..against the speculations of political economists. 1882M. Arnold Irish Ess. Pref. p. xi, The barren logomachies of Plato's Theætetus are relieved by half a dozen immortal pages. 1901Contemp. Rev. Aug. 289 It shows how much of mere logomachy there is in these disputes.
2. ? U.S. ‘A game of cards each containing one letter with which words are formed’ (Cent. Dict.). |
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