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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2004"logily" anyone?
Does anyone know what the word LOGILY mean in english? Can't find it in the dictionaries. Thanks ben > Does anyone know what the word LOGILY mean in english? Can't find it > in the dictionaries. Try looking up the word "logy". Regards, John >> Does anyone know what the word LOGILY mean in english? Can't find it >> in the dictionaries. > >Try looking up the word "logy". Or even "logically". Without context, it could be anything. In our last episode, <4fa97eb.0401290754.7fba24b5@posting.google.com>, the lovely and talented ben broadcast on alt.usage.english: > Does anyone know what the word LOGILY mean in english? Can't find it > in the dictionaries. > Thanks > ben This is difficult without context. It might mean "in a sluggish or groggy manner" or it might be a typo for something else.  SignatureLars Eighner -finger for geek code- eighner@io.com http://www.io.com/~eighner/ Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. --Oscar Wilde >Does anyone know what the word LOGILY mean in english? Can't find it >in the dictionaries. Sure you can! Try the <OED>: LOGILY, adj. [f. LOGY a.] In a dull or heavy manner. 1912 J. LONDON Son of Sun viii. 326 The schooner,..from the weight of water on her decks, behaved logily. ***** SignatureRegards, Frank Young tipcat@wam.umd.edu 703-527-7684 Post Office Box 2793, Kensington, Maryland 20891 "Videmus nunc per speculum in aenigmate... Nunc cognosco ex parte" In our last episode, <bvbdlc$gjg@rac2.wam.umd.edu>, the lovely and talented The Bibliographer broadcast on alt.usage.english: >>Does anyone know what the word LOGILY mean in english? Can't find it >>in the dictionaries. > Sure you can! Try the <OED>: > LOGILY, adj. > [f. LOGY a.] Really? Logily the adjective and logy the adverb? > In a dull or heavy manner. > > 1912 J. LONDON Son of Sun viii. 326 The schooner,..from the weight of > water on her decks, behaved logily. > ***** SignatureLars Eighner -finger for geek code- eighner@io.com http://www.io.com/~eighner/ The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. --Andre Gide > In our last episode, > <bvbdlc$gjg@rac2.wam.umd.edu>, [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Really? Logily the adjective and logy the adverb? Not in my OED, cut and pasted in another message. SignatureMartin Ambuhl >>Does anyone know what the word LOGILY mean in english? Can't find it >>in the dictionaries. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > 1912 J. LONDON Son of Sun viii. 326 The schooner,..from the weight of >water on her decks, behaved logily. "Logily" is not in WNID2 or the Collegiates, but it's right there in WTNID as, simply: --- adv: in a logy manner Mike Patrick > Does anyone know what the word LOGILY mean in english? Can't find it > in the dictionaries. [from OED2] logily, /adv./ [f. logy /a./] In a dull or heavy manner. "*1912* J. London /Son of Sun/ viii. 326 The schooner,..from the weight of water on her decks, behaved logily." SignatureMartin Ambuhl |
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