vitilitigation

English

Noun

vitilitigation (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare) cavillous litigation; petty criticism or objection
   • 1674, Walter Charleton, The Natural History of Passions:

     I am not so addicted to vitilitigation, as to contend about the propriety of those expressions in scripture, which seem to ascribe all our sacred passions principaly ^[sic] to the heart.

   • 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:

     I'll force you by right ratiocination
     To leave your vitilitigation,
     And make you keep to th' question close,
     And argue dialecticos

References

“vitilitigation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.