v. [f. TAUTOLOGY + -IZE. (The Gr. equivalent was ταὐτολογεῖν.) Cf. APOLOGIZE.] intr. To repeat the same thing in the same or different words; to use tautology. Also with it (quot. 1656).
1607. Topsell, Serpents (1658), 761. To take occasion to tautologize, or to speak one thing twice.
1615. Jackson, Creed, IV. iv. § 1. Even the most acute amongst the schoolmen while they seek to clear this doubt do but falter and tautologize.
1656. S. H., Gold. Law, 1. We are constrained … to Tautologize it in repetitions, even to a wearying of our selves and the world with words.
16[?]. Plutarch’s Mor., IV. 220 (L.). The tautologizing babler, if he be a physitian, certainly is more troublesome than the disease.
Hence Tautologizer, one who tautologizes; a tautologist.
1657. J. Watts, Vind. Ch. Eng., 241. A vain babler, a tautologizer and a vain repeater.
