tollentadj.
/ˈtɒlənt/ Logic. rare.
That ‘takes away’ or negatives: opposed to ponent adj.2
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contract1605
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monstrative1653
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tollent1770
conjunctivea1856
hypothetico-disjunctivea1856
schematica1856
unfigureda1856
subsumptive1884
episyllogistic1886
1770 tr. C. von Wolff Logic 87 The Tollent mode.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) I. xviii. 344 A Tollent or Destructive syllogism. [See destructive adj. d.]
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