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Brewer’s Dictionary
> Tænia Rationis.
Tache’brune (2 syl.).
Taë’-pings.
CONTENTS
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
E. Cobham Brewer
1810–1897
. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Tænia Rationis.
Show of argument. Argument which seems
prima facie
plausible and specious, but has no real depth or value.
1
“Mr. Spencer is again afflicted with his old complaint
tœnia rationis,
and takes big words for real things.”—
Era Olla: Mr. Spencer’s First Principles.
Tache’brune (2 syl.).
Taë’-pings.
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