Logic. [A Latin word (= ‘they might hide’) taken as a mnemonic.] A term designating the second mood of the first figure of syllogisms, in which the major premiss and the conclusion are universal negatives, and the minor premiss a universal affirmative.
1551. T. Wilson, Logique, G vij b. In Celarent we se twise E, whereby we are taught that the argument … must haue two vniuersall negatives, and one vniuersall affirmative.
1589. Marprel. Epit., E iiij b. The moode answereth unto Celarent, elder daughter to Barbara.
1589. Pappe w. Hatchet, E b. You shall not finde such reasons, they bee all in celarent, and dare not shewe their heads.
1882. Mallock, Soc. Equality, vi. 138. We cannot prove it in Barbara, Celarent, or Bocardo.
