单词 | chop-logic |
释义 | chop-logicn. contemptuous. 1. Sophistical or contentious argument. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] sophistry1340 chop-logic1533 Jesuitism1613 chopping of logic1668 casuistry1712 sophism1768 special pleading1813 subtilism1825 Jesuitry1832 verbalism1847 logic-chopping1904 1533 T. More Apol. xxvii, in Wks. 893/1 All suche argumentes, and suche choppelogikes agaynste good rules. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 395 b What kinde of chopp~logick is this?..A trymm conclusion surely! 1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. B4v Clothbreeches..swore..that his choplogicke was not woorth a pinne. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 254/1 Argumentation..is..termed also Demonstration, Sophistry, Chop Logick, Polemic. 1951 N. Annan Leslie Stephen i. 42 His chop-logic destruction of cant. 1951 N. Annan Leslie Stephen ix. 257 The true positivist is not a crude lout wielding an axe of chop-logic. 1960 Spectator 8 July 51 The arguments were nearly always developed with the same chop-logic. 2. One who chops logic; a contentious, sophistical arguer. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > false reasoner, sophist sophisterc1380 Duns man1528 chop-loge1542 dunser?1550 shifter1567 chop-logic1575 sophist1581 casuist1616 casualist1633 Jesuit1640 logicaster1683 chopper1699 special pleader1796 1575 J. Awdely Fraternitye of Vacabondes (new ed.) sig. C1 Choplogyke, is he that when his mayster rebuketh him of hys fault he wyll geue hym .xx. wordes for one. 1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions ii. v. f. 131 Wranglers, busye medlers in other mens matters,..Choplogicks, & pratlers. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. v. 149 Whats here, chop logicke. 3. attributive. ΚΠ 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xliv. 213 And take vpon him in chop logic lawse To controll vs. Derivatives chop-logical adj. argumentative, disputatious.Tyndale uses chopological in derision of tropological. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [adjective] > engaging in controversy, disputatious unpeaceablec1384 disputative1579 disputablea1616 disputeful1631 controversial1638 controversal1641 obstreperous1641 contradictive1643 disputing1645 controverting1646 chop-logicala1652 disputatious1660 argumentative1667 argumentive1668 disputant1671 contradictiousa1677 disceptatious1682 obstropolous1727 disceptatorial1821 contradictory1891 backtalking1938 1528 W. Tyndale Doctr. Treat. (1848) 308 The literal sense killeth..We must therefore, say they, seek out some chopological sense. a1652 R. Brome Queen & Concubine v. vii, in Five New Playes (1659) Why thou choplogicall Fellow, dost thou not think, there are as good men hanged? a1652 R. Brome Queen & Concubine iv. v. 92 in Five New Playes (1659) You choplogical Rascal. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1528 |
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