Word Meanings - CAVILLATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Frivolous or sophistical objection. Hooker.

Related words: (words related to CAVILLATION)

• OBJECTION
  1. The act of objecting; as, to prevent agreement, or action, by objection. Johnson. 2. That which is, or may be, presented in opposition; an adverse reason or argument; a reason for objecting; obstacle; impediment; as, I have no objection
• HOOKER
  1. One who, or that which, hooks. A Dutch vessel with two masts. A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland. A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.
• OBJECTIONABLE
  Liable to objection; likely to be objected to or disapproved of; offensive; as, objectionable words. -- Ob*jec"tion*a*bly, adv.
• FRIVOLOUS
  1. Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; as, a frivolous argument. Swift. 2. Given to trifling; marked with unbecoming levity; silly; interested especially in trifling matters. His personal tastes were low and frivolous.
• THEOSOPHISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to theosophy; theosophical.
• PHILOSOPHISTIC; PHILOSOPHISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to the love or practice of sophistry.
• SOPHISTIC; SOPHISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound. His argument . . . is altogether sophistical. Macaulay. -- So*phis"tic*al*ly, adv. -- So*phis"tic*al*ness, n.