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dilogical

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Etymology

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From the Ancient Greek δίλογος (dílogos, doubtful) and/or διλογία (dilogía, repetition).

Adjective

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dilogical (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) ambiguous; of double meaning
    • 1629, Thomas Adams, Sermons:
      delivered their opinions in such spurious, enigmatical, dilogical terms, as the devil gave his oracles

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dilogical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)