perissology

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Superfluity of words; verbosity; long-windedness. countable,uncountable
    — The reason assigned for saying koran and not alcoran, is truly curious. Al, say they, is the Arabic article, and signifies the; consequently, if we should say the alcoran, we should fall into a gross perissology. It is just as if we said the the book.

词形变化

perissologies plural

词源

From Latin perissologia, from Ancient Greek περισσός (perissós, “odd, uneven”) + Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía). By surface analysis, perisso- + logy or periss- + -ology.
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