Syllogize

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Syllogize \Syl"lo*gize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Syllogized}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Syllogizing}.] [Gr. ?: cf. F. syllogiser.]
     To reason by means of syllogisms.
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           Men have endeavored . . . to teach boys to syllogize,


           or frame arguments and refute them, without any real
           inward knowledge of the question.        --I. Watts.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  syllogize
       v : reason by syllogisms [syn: {syllogise}]