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Definition of Dislogistic
1. Adjective. Expressing disapproval. "Dyslogistic terms like `nitwit' and `scalawag'"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dislogistic
Literary usage of Dislogistic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern English by Fitzedward Hall (1873)
"And, even if logistic meant ' logical', what a compound we have in dislogistic !
From Mr. Smart, who has discovered such words as ..."
2. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Robert Williams (1869)
"... if bad, it becomes identical with cunning; so that we sometimes call even the
prudent clever, and so by dislogistic imputation cunning. ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1857)
"But the fair sex, of course, willingly accepted the practical safety without
inquiring into, or perhaps even being conscious of, the dislogistic proverb. ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1871)
"... though of course he would be too polite, even in his thoughts, to use such a
dislogistic word as ..."
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