Logic. A mnemonic word, representing by its vowels the fourth mood of the second figure of syllogisms, in which the premisses are a universal affirmative and particular negative, and the conclusion a particular negative.
1581. Fulke, in Confer., III. (1584), P ij b. It is neither in mode nor figure. Fulke. It is in Baroco.
1838. Sir W. Hamilton, Logic, xxii. I. 443. Bocardo, which … with Baroco … was the opprobrium of the scholastic system of reduction.
1870. Bowen, Logic, 204. Baroko and Bokardo have been stumbling-blocks to the logicians.
