syllogize

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: syl=lo=gize

CIDE DICTIONARY

syllogize, v. i. [Gr. : cf. F. syllogiser.].

 To reason by means of syllogisms.  [1913 Webster]
"Men have endeavored . . . to teach boys to syllogize, or frame arguments and refute them, without any real inward knowledge of the question."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

syllogize, v. (also -ise)
1 intr. use syllogisms.
2 tr. put (facts or an argument) in the form of syllogism.

Etymology

ME f. OF sillogiser or LL syllogizare f. Gk sullogizomai (as SYLLOGISM)