英语词汇“from the staff to the corner”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†b. from the staff to the corner (also from the corner to the staff): from one issue or subject to another unrelated one. Obsolete.Used to suggest that a discussion, argument, conclusion, etc., is illogical, spurious, or fallacious. [After post-classical Latin a baculo ad angulum (1535 in Luther), with reference to the phrase baculus stat in angulo ‘the staff stands in the corner’ (c1400 or earlier) used in examples of unsound reasoning in medieval treatises on logic.]

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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > putting forward for discussion > put forward for discussion [verb (intransitive)] > change course

to argue from the staff to the corner1656

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius ii. f. 84^v A very new founde and straunge maner of Argument, framed perhappes after the rule which concludeth from the staffe to the corner [L. a baculo ad angulum].

1588 J. Penry Def. Ignorant Ministerie 45 So fit to the purpose, of edification, as the reason from the corner to the staffe, is soundly concluded.

1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon ii. 107 This is an argument from the Staffe to the Corner. I speak of a succession of holy Orders, and he of a succession of Opinions.

1682 P. Walsh Reply Person of Quality's Answer 20 Must it not follow therefore, that our Person of Quality's Conclusion is from the Staffe to the Corner (as they say)?

单词	from the staff to the corner
释义	> as lemmas from the staff to the corner †b. from the staff to the corner (also from the corner to the staff): from one issue or subject to another unrelated one. Obsolete.Used to suggest that a discussion, argument, conclusion, etc., is illogical, spurious, or fallacious. [After post-classical Latin a baculo ad angulum (1535 in Luther), with reference to the phrase baculus stat in angulo ‘the staff stands in the corner’ (c1400 or earlier) used in examples of unsound reasoning in medieval treatises on logic.] ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > putting forward for discussion > put forward for discussion [verb (intransitive)] > change course to argue from the staff to the corner1656 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius ii. f. 84^v A very new founde and straunge maner of Argument, framed perhappes after the rule which concludeth from the staffe to the corner [L. a baculo ad angulum]. 1588 J. Penry Def. Ignorant Ministerie 45 So fit to the purpose, of edification, as the reason from the corner to the staffe, is soundly concluded. 1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon ii. 107 This is an argument from the Staffe to the Corner. I speak of a succession of holy Orders, and he of a succession of Opinions. 1682 P. Walsh Reply Person of Quality's Answer 20 Must it not follow therefore, that our Person of Quality's Conclusion is from the Staffe to the Corner (as they say)? extracted from staffn.¹ < as lemmas
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