alogy

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin alogia, from Ancient Greek.

Noun

alogy (obsolete)

1. 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