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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or of the nature of pilpul.
Examples
“How many of his pilpulistic theories he can sit on the head of a pin may have been the in thing if and when he was at Oxbridge but it always fails to perceive the bigger truth because they can't handle it.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7762 more...
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