syllogize

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
syllogize
    v 1: reason by syllogisms [syn: {syllogize}, {syllogise}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Syllogize \Syl"lo*gize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Syllogized}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Syllogizing}.] [Gr. ?: cf. F. syllogiser.]
   To reason by means of syllogisms.
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         Men have endeavored . . . to teach boys to syllogize,
         or frame arguments and refute them, without any real
         inward knowledge of the question.        --I. Watts.
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