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logodaedaly +? -ist

logodaedalist (plural logodaedalists)

One skilled in logodaedaly, that is, the use of words or wordplay.
- 1886, Immanuel Kant, John William Semple, Henry Calderwood, The metaphysic of ethics, page 154
  But when pedants have the effrontery to address the public from the pulpit or the chair, in technical phraseology, calculated singly for the school, that cannot be properly charged on any philosophic system, any more than the follies of a logodaedalist are to be charged on grammar.

From Ancient Greek ????? (lógos, “word”) + ???????? (Daídalos, “Daedalus, a skilled craftsman of Ancient Greek mythology”) + -y.

logodaedaly (countable and uncountable, plural logodaedalies)

(rare) Skill or cleverness in the coining of new words
- 1826, Samuel Bailey, A Letter to a Political Economist,
  In questions of philosophy or divinity, that have occupied the learned, I could bring ten instances of logodaedaly, or verbal legerdemain, which have perilously confirmed prejudices, and withstood the advancement of truth, in consequence of the neglect of verbal debate, i. e. strict discussion of terms.
- 2001, Lewis O. Saum, Eugene Field and His Age, University of Nebraska Press, ?ISBN, page 238,
  In "Sharps and Flats," the reader might well get instruction on the proper use of farther and further or an essay on logodaedaly.
(quite rare) A skillfully or cleverly coined new word.

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