Obs.
1. The adverb ergo used as a name for itself; hence, a conclusion, a conclusive authorization.
1589. R. Harvey, Pl. Perc. (1590), 20. Such a quoile with pro and con, such vrging of Ergoes.
a. 1613. Overbury, A Wife (1638), 125. The currant of his speech is clos’d with an Ergo.
1654. R. Whitlock, Ζωοτομια, 259. We come not to the Ergo of our knowledge untill we come to the conclusion of our daies.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., IX. vi. § 25. No conclusive argument could then be framed without the Ergo of the Royall assent.
2. nonce-use. A ‘logic-chopper.’
1597. 1st Ret. Parnass., III. i. 979. I reward the poor ergoes most bountifullie, and send them away.
