[f. SYLLOGISM or SYLLOGIZE: see -IST.] One who reasons by syllogisms; one versed in syllogism.
1799. J. Scott, Bahar-Danush, I. ii. 13. As the syllogists of deep judgment, [he was] skilled in eloquence.
1806. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., IV. 219. They come again a posteriori to the usage which an a priori syllogist had exploded.
1836. Landor, Pericles & Aspasia, cxcvi. Wks. 1846, II. 436/2. It is only since the departure of the sedate unostentatious Anaxagoras, that syllogists have snapped their fingers at experiment.
