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alogy

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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin alogia, from Ancient Greek.

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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.

Anagrams

Golay, Goyal, goyal

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