logodaedalist

logodaedalist
One skilled in logodaedaly, that is, the use of words or wordplay.

But when pedants have the effrontery to address the public from the pulpit or the chair, in technical phraseology, calculated singly for the school, that cannot be properly charged on any philosophic system , any more than the follies of a logodaedalist are to be charged on grammar.


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  • logodaedaly — noun /ˌloʊ.ɡoʊˈdi.də.li/ a) Skill or cleverness in the coining of new words In questions of philosophy or divinity, that have occupied the learned, I could bring ten instances of logodaedaly, or verbal legerdemain, which have perilously confirmed …   Wiktionary

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