[L. neuter of absurdus adj., used substantively as a scholastic term in med.L.] An absurd or illogical conclusion or condition. See REDUCTIO ad absurdum.
a. 1834. Lamb, Spec. fr. Fuller, 537, note. Setting up an absurdum on purpose to hunt it down.
1877. Kinglake, Crimea (ed. 6), I. xv. 342. Reducing the theory of Representative Government to the absurdum.
