special-pleadv.

Brit.

/ˌspɛʃlˈpliːd/, U.S.

/ˌspɛʃ(ə)lˈplid/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: special adj., plead v.

Etymology: < special adj. + plead v., after special pleading n.

1. transitive. To use special pleading towards (a person, etc.), or in defence of (an argument, etc.). Now rare.With early use cf. special pleading n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > employ sophism [verb (intransitive)]

to chop logic1528

to play the sophister?1550

Jesuit1601

casuist1643

special-plead1702

special-plead1848

1702 Law Executors & Administrators 151 The Defendant might have been helpt by special pleading it.

1796 True Briton 9 Dec. Let Gentlemen only see the narrow way in which he endeavoured to special plead the House out of its senses, and the People out of their liberties.

1810 La Belle Assemblée Oct. 217/1 Nothing gave us more real disgust than the conclusion of the mystery, which was special pleaded and quibbled away by help of alibi and misnomers, and all the common craft of Old Bailey practice.

1874 F. J. Furnivall in Trans. New Shakspere Soc. 369 Neither Mr Halliwell nor I have any desire to special-plead the point, or to strain the evidence beyond the presumption for the late date of Coriolanus that it justifies.

1978 Worldview (Council on Relig. & Internat. Affairs) Mar. 54/1 If Green tends now to special-plead the Cavalier cause, it is because he has been too much the Roundhead in the past, in keeping with the bent of social criticism of the past fifty years.

2. intransitive. To use special pleading or sophistical argument.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > request > make a request [verb (intransitive)] > beseech or implore

beseech?c1225

praya1250

plead1340

pursuec1390

implore?a1513

perplead1581

entreat1593

beg1598

oratec1600

contest1607

deprecate1626

imprecatea1645

obtest1650

prig1700

special-plead1814

plea1868

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > employ sophism [verb (intransitive)]

to chop logic1528

to play the sophister?1550

Jesuit1601

casuist1643

special-plead1702

special-plead1848

1814 Edinb. Rev. Nov. 196 It does not become a Monarch, in so peculiar a situation, to special plead upon his royal word.

1848 Duke of Argyll Eccl. Hist. Scotl. 232 They [sc. the clergy]..misrepresent, conceal, and special-plead.

1895 G. B. Shaw Our Theatres in Nineties 9 Nov. (1932) 238 He may..special-plead against it [sc. the truth].

1912 D. Figgis Broken Arcs i. xxxii. 127 I'm an old man, I can talk to you as a young man can't talk to his wife—you know, she'd think he was special-pleading.

2008 N.Z. Herald 11 Dec. (Business section) The Government has dispatched Tim Groser to the climate change talks in Poznan this week to special-plead like crazy on our behalf.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	special-plead
释义	special-pleadv. Brit. /ˌspɛʃlˈpliːd/, U.S. /ˌspɛʃ(ə)lˈplid/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: special adj., plead v. Etymology: < special adj. + plead v., after special pleading n. 1. transitive. To use special pleading towards (a person, etc.), or in defence of (an argument, etc.). Now rare.With early use cf. special pleading n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > employ sophism [verb (intransitive)] to chop logic1528 to play the sophister?1550 Jesuit1601 casuist1643 special-plead1702 special-plead1848 1702 Law Executors & Administrators 151 The Defendant might have been helpt by special pleading it. 1796 True Briton 9 Dec. Let Gentlemen only see the narrow way in which he endeavoured to special plead the House out of its senses, and the People out of their liberties. 1810 La Belle Assemblée Oct. 217/1 Nothing gave us more real disgust than the conclusion of the mystery, which was special pleaded and quibbled away by help of alibi and misnomers, and all the common craft of Old Bailey practice. 1874 F. J. Furnivall in Trans. New Shakspere Soc. 369 Neither Mr Halliwell nor I have any desire to special-plead the point, or to strain the evidence beyond the presumption for the late date of Coriolanus that it justifies. 1978 Worldview (Council on Relig. & Internat. Affairs) Mar. 54/1 If Green tends now to special-plead the Cavalier cause, it is because he has been too much the Roundhead in the past, in keeping with the bent of social criticism of the past fifty years. 2. intransitive. To use special pleading or sophistical argument. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > make a request [verb (intransitive)] > beseech or implore beseech?c1225 praya1250 plead1340 pursuec1390 implore?a1513 perplead1581 entreat1593 beg1598 oratec1600 contest1607 deprecate1626 imprecatea1645 obtest1650 prig1700 special-plead1814 plea1868 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > employ sophism [verb (intransitive)] to chop logic1528 to play the sophister?1550 Jesuit1601 casuist1643 special-plead1702 special-plead1848 1814 Edinb. Rev. Nov. 196 It does not become a Monarch, in so peculiar a situation, to special plead upon his royal word. 1848 Duke of Argyll Eccl. Hist. Scotl. 232 They [sc. the clergy]..misrepresent, conceal, and special-plead. 1895 G. B. Shaw Our Theatres in Nineties 9 Nov. (1932) 238 He may..special-plead against it [sc. the truth]. 1912 D. Figgis Broken Arcs i. xxxii. 127 I'm an old man, I can talk to you as a young man can't talk to his wife—you know, she'd think he was special-pleading. 2008 N.Z. Herald 11 Dec. (Business section) The Government has dispatched Tim Groser to the climate change talks in Poznan this week to special-plead like crazy on our behalf. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1702
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