antilogyn.
A contradiction in terms, or ideas.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > lack of reasoning, illogicality > [noun] > contradiction
self-contradiction1606
antilogy1614
bull1640
antiloquy1656
contradiction1795
1614 J. Boys Wks. (1630) 782 The replies and Antilogies of our accuratly learned Diuines.
1681 Tears of Press in Harl. Misc. (1745) IV. 426 Alas, How miserably is Truth torn by Antilogies!
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word), A large Index of the seeming Antilogies in the Bible; i.e. of Texts which apparently contradict each other.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) I. App. 402 Speculation ends in a series of insoluble antilogies.
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n.1614- over-laudation
- over-laughing
- over-lavishness
- over-lawyer-like
- over-laxative
- over-leaven
- over-leer
- over-leg
- over-legislation
- over-leisured
- over-lenient
- over-letter
- over-lewd
- over-licentious
- over-life-size
- over-lightheaded
- over-liking
- over-linger
- over-link
- over-list
- over-little
- over-lively
- over-living
- over-loathe
- over-lofty