a. rare. [f. Gr. ταὐτολογία TAUTOLOGY + -IC: cf. the adv. ταὐτολογίκῶς in Eustathius c. 1160.] = next, 1.
1828. Blackw. Mag., XXIV. 906. Dr. Johnson … he charges … with a plethoric and tautologic tympany of sentence.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., VII. v. (1872), II. 287. No end of florid inflated tautologic ornamental balderdash.
