ob and sollers

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(pl. noun) - Words contracted from objections and solutions, applied in ridicule of the polemic divines of the time of Cromwell, who represented the arguments of their adversaries in the shape of objections--noted in the margins as ob, and their own replies as sol, solutions. Samuel Butler's Hudibras (1664) contains Pass for deep and learned scholars, / Although but paltry ob-and-sollers. --William Toone's Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete Terms, 1832

January 27, 2018