Also 7 -logie, -logee. [ad. Gr. βαττολογία vain repetition, n. of quality f. βαττολόγος: see BATTOLOGICAL.] A needless and tiresome repetition in speaking or writing.

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a. 1603.  T. Cartwright, Confut. Rhem. N. T. (1618), 142. The Marginall notes … are meere Battologies of loathsome repetitions.

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1765.  Tucker, Lt. Nat., II. 440. We are warned against the battology or vain repetitions of the heathens.

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1818.  Southey, in Q. Rev., XIX. 96. Away then with … the battology of statistics.

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