pseudodox
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false, lying”) + δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”).
Adjective
pseudodox (not comparable)
- Not true in opinion or doctrine; false.
Noun
pseudodox (plural pseudodoxes)
- A false opinion or doctrine.
- a. 1652, Thomas Adams, England's Sickness (sermon)
- to maintain the atheistical paradox, pseudodox, which judgeth evil good
- 1600 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Revels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, OCLC 960101342:
- how clearly I can refel that paradox , or rather pseudodox , of those , which hold the face to be the index of the mind
- a. 1652, Thomas Adams, England's Sickness (sermon)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pseudodox in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)