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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In logic, a captious or sophistical mode of arguing. See crocodile, 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Logic), rare A caption or sophistical mode of arguing.

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  • noun logic, archaic A sophistical mode of arguing.

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