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His detestation of the errorists doubtless called forth kenophonia, logomachein, logomachia, metaiologia, metaiologos, several of which were probably coined for the occasion.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Aliud vitium [Greek: logomachia] est, quae sensa deserens, loquaciter cum verbo litigat, "Invenias mihi Missam, inquiunt, aut Purgatorium in Scripturis."
Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities Edmund Campion 1560
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Another vice is [Greek: logomachia], which leaves the sense, and wrangles loquaciously over the word.
Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities Edmund Campion 1560
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From the Greek logos (word) and machia (war, battle, conflict), thus a battle of words; by extension, an argument or debate.
"He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words" (I Timothy, 6:4)
Cf. rythmomachia for other examples of the combining element -machia.
February 9, 2008