syllogize

English

Etymology

From Middle French sillogiser, ultimately from Ancient Greek συλλογίζεσθαι (sullogízesthai).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪlədʒʌɪz/

Verb

syllogize (third-person singular simple present syllogizes, present participle syllogizing, simple past and past participle syllogized)

(intransitive) To reason by means of syllogisms.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 11, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  those disputers […] make him to infer and say what he never meant, wresting and wyre-drawing his words to a contrarie sense, arguing and silogizing by the Grammarians privilege […].
(transitive) To deduce consequences from.

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