a. Logic. rare. [ad. L. tollent-em, pres. pple. of tollĕre to lift, take away.] That ‘takes away’ or negatives: opp. to PONENT 3.
1837–8. Sir W. Hamilton, Logic, xviii. (1866), I. 344. A Tollent or Destructive syllogism. [See DESTRUCTIVE A. d.]
