latrants

Noun

latrant (plural latrants)

1. (obsolete, rare) One who is barking, a dog, (figurative) a complainer.
   • Thus—All triangles are all trilaterals. 2°, It may designate a class considered as undivided, though not positively thought as taken in its whole extent; and this may be articulately denoted by (:.). Thus—The triangle is the trilateral;—The dog is the latrant.— (Here note the use of the definite...a. 1857, William Hamilton, “Appendix”, in H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, editors, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume IV, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons...

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