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syllogizing

syllogizing is the present participle and gerund of syllogize.

Meaning of syllogize

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To reason by means of syllogisms.
    • 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[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 11, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  2. (transitive) To deduce consequences from.

Questions about syllogizing

What is syllogizing the present participle and gerund of?
Syllogizing is the present participle and gerund of syllogize.

Words near syllogizing in the dictionary

  1. syllogize
  2. syllogized
  3. syllogizer
  4. syllogizers
  5. syllogizes
  6. syllogizing
  7. Sylmar
  8. Syloti
  9. Sylotis
  10. Sylow theorem
  11. Sylow theorems

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