Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Senseless talk. [Obs. or R.] See
galimatias .
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- noun obsolete
Senseless talk .
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Examples
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She became by this desire quite ridiculous, and ran into absurdities and a gallimatia scarce credible.
Amelia — Volume 2 Henry Fielding 1730
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She became by this desire quite ridiculous, and ran into absurdities and a gallimatia scarce credible.
Amelia — Complete Henry Fielding 1730
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Colman observes here: “Madame Dacier makes an observation on this speech, something like that of Donatus on one of Micio’s above; and says that Micio, being hard put to it by the real circumstances of the case, thinks to confound Demea by a nonsensical gallimatia.
The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes Terence 1847
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