pseudodox

English edit

Etymology edit

From Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false, lying”) + δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”).

Adjective edit

pseudodox (not comparable)

Not true in opinion or doctrine; false.

Noun edit

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), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
  how clearly I can refel that paradox , or rather pseudodox , of those , which hold the face to be the index of the mind

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)