Obs. Pl. -i. Also in anglicized form logodædale. [mod.L., f. Gr. λογοδαίδαλος, f. λόγο-ς + δαίδαλος cunning.] One who is cunning in words.
1611. ? B. Jonson in Coryat’s Crudities, Charac. Authour. He is a great and bold Carpenter of Words or (to express him in one like his owne) a Logodædale.
1650. Trapp, Comm., Song Sol. iv. 3. (1660), III. 353. Those Logodædali, learned Asses, that prophanely disdain at the stately plainness of Gods blessed Book.
1664. Evelyn, trans. Freart’s Archit., etc. 121. Least whilest I thus discourse of the Accomplishments of our Artists … I my self be found Logodædalus.
So † Logodædalist.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Logodædalist, an Inventer or Forger of new Words, and strange Terms.
1806. J. Leslie, Dict. Synon. Words, s.v. Words, Inventor of words, logodædalist.
