Perissological

Synonyms for "perissological" (5 found)

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We skated out tangents and cotangents of majestic circles, together with signs and wonders, versed, inversed, and reversed, which it would be perissological to enumerate.

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I am reluctantly driven to thinking, however, that, as Mr. Schutze finds it as hard to believe these currently-accepted scientific explanations of phenomena as it is to believe in the Holy Trinity, his days of mental progress must have me to an end, in which case further discussion of these subjects would be but a perissological performance which would be better avoided.

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There is no doubt that the ordinary reader would enjoy, and he certainly would profit much by, a revival of the classic work—if only he did not fall asleep over its magniloquent but perissological otiosity.

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But these are changes that would modify neither the sets of values expressed in a perissological way nor the non-verbal communication that takes place around the artefact in question.

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