Dictionary entry

Syllogize

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Syl″lo‐gize (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Syllogized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Syllogizing (?).] [Gr. �: cf. F. syllogiser.] To reason by means of syllogisms.

Men have endeavored... to teach boys to syllogize, or frame arguments and refute them, without any real inward knowledge of the question. I. Watts.