perissologyn.

Brit.

/ˌpɛrɪˈsɒlədʒi/, U.S.

/ˌpɛrəˈsɑlədʒi/

Forms: 1500s–1700s 1900s– perissology, 1700s parissology (irregular).

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin perissologia.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin perissologia use of more words than are necessary (4th or 5th cent. in grammarians; already in classical Latin (Quintilian) as a Greek word) < Hellenistic Greek περισσολογία < ancient Greek περισσός redundant (see perissad adj. and n.) + -λογία -logy comb. form. Compare Greek περισσολόγος speaking too much, in scholia (medieval Greek or earlier) on Aristophanes Knights 89. Compare Middle French perissologia (1521), French périssologie (1710). For earlier use of post-classical Latin perissologia in an English context compare the following:1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. Bviii^v Perissologia. Sermo superfluus, when a sentence is added, y^e matter therby made neuer the waightier.

Rhetoric.

Use of more words than are necessary; redundancy or superfluity of expression, pleonasm; an instance of this.Humorously pedantic in later quots.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > pleonasm

long language1521

pleonasmus1533

macrologya1538

perissology1583

pleonasm1610

1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. sig. Cv^v Haue not the most eloquent authors, vsed Hyperbatons, Perissologies, and other figures that are counted faultes of speech?

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Perissology, superfluous speaking.

1753 J. Man Censure & Exam. Ruddiman's Philol. Notes v. 423 According to him, Cicero must be guilty of a perissology in many places.

1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric I. ii. iii. 426 If we should say the alcoran, we should fall into a gross parissology.

1910 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 31 215 He has a liking for paraphrase and perissology, but the most characteristic feature is an..avoidance of similar words.

1975 Man 10 164/1 A paper..whose inspissated perissology obfuscates its own significativeness.

1994 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 3 Dec. 8 I cannot leave out perissology... We are very given to that.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	perissology
释义	perissologyn. Brit. /ˌpɛrɪˈsɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˌpɛrəˈsɑlədʒi/ Forms: 1500s–1700s 1900s– perissology, 1700s parissology (irregular). Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin perissologia. Etymology: < post-classical Latin perissologia use of more words than are necessary (4th or 5th cent. in grammarians; already in classical Latin (Quintilian) as a Greek word) < Hellenistic Greek περισσολογία < ancient Greek περισσός redundant (see perissad adj. and n.) + -λογία -logy comb. form. Compare Greek περισσολόγος speaking too much, in scholia (medieval Greek or earlier) on Aristophanes Knights 89. Compare Middle French perissologia (1521), French périssologie (1710). For earlier use of post-classical Latin perissologia in an English context compare the following:1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. Bviii^v Perissologia. Sermo superfluus, when a sentence is added, y^e matter therby made neuer the waightier. Rhetoric. Use of more words than are necessary; redundancy or superfluity of expression, pleonasm; an instance of this.Humorously pedantic in later quots. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > pleonasm long language1521 pleonasmus1533 macrologya1538 perissology1583 pleonasm1610 1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. sig. Cv^v Haue not the most eloquent authors, vsed Hyperbatons, Perissologies, and other figures that are counted faultes of speech? 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Perissology, superfluous speaking. 1753 J. Man Censure & Exam. Ruddiman's Philol. Notes v. 423 According to him, Cicero must be guilty of a perissology in many places. 1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric I. ii. iii. 426 If we should say the alcoran, we should fall into a gross parissology. 1910 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 31 215 He has a liking for paraphrase and perissology, but the most characteristic feature is an..avoidance of similar words. 1975 Man 10 164/1 A paper..whose inspissated perissology obfuscates its own significativeness. 1994 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 3 Dec. 8 I cannot leave out perissology... We are very given to that. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1583
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