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tautologous, a.|tɔːˈtɒləgəs|
[f. Gr. ταὐτολόγ-ος repeating what has been said (f. ταὐτό the same + -λογος saying, f. λέγειν to say) + -ous.]
= tautological 1.
1714J. Fortescue-Aland Pref. Fortescue's Abs. & Lim. Mon. 67 The County of Devon, in the old way of Speaking..called the County of Devonshire, which is the constant Expression in old Deeds, and signifies the same thing tho' it be tautologous. 1786H. Tooke Purley i. ix. 406, I have been purposely tautologous, that by my indifferent application of the two words of and for..the smallest..opposition between these prepositions might be done away. 1853Fraser's Mag. XLVII. 358 The circuitous jargon—the tautologous gabble..of special pleading. 1884Sir W. B. Brett in Law Times Rep. 10 May 315/2, I have come to the conclusion..that the Legislature intended in this case to be verbose and tautologous, and to say the same thing twice over. 1935Mind XLIV. 195 The tautologous ‘p or not p’. 1940W. V. Quine Mathematical Logic i. 50 Statements which are true by virtue solely of the truth-functional modes of composition will be called tautologous.
Hence tauˈtologously adv. = tautologically.
1865J. P. Collier Bibl. Catal. I. 109 It begins thus tautologously: ‘The present plagues that now we fele’. 1904Westm. Gaz. 22 Oct. 3/2 ‘Fraud-pilfered’—the indictment is tautologously complete. |