alogy
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin alogia, from Ancient Greek.
Pronunciation
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Noun
alogy (obsolete)
- unreasonableness, absurdity
- 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Bever”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 113:
- The error therefore and Alogie in this opinion, is worſe then in the laſt […]
Further reading
- “alogy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.