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.
a. 1603. T. Cartwright, Confut. Rhem. N. T. (1618), 142. The Marginall notes are meere Battologies of loathsome repetitions.
1765. Tucker, Lt. Nat., II. 440. We are warned against the battology or vain repetitions of the heathens.
1818. Southey, in Q. Rev., XIX. 96. Away then with the battology of statistics.