"logodaedalus" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1924, Frank Crane, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Current Opinion, volume 76",
          "text": "Mr. Auslander is a logodaedalus — a wizard of words — whose adjectives possess an unerring salience, whose vigor is as undinted as he bronze of a Thracian shield.",
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          "ref": "1971, Edward Dahlberg, The Confessions of Edward Dahlberg, page 206",
          "text": "What had the ruffian café logodaedalus taught me?",
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          "ref": "1981, Stephen Spender, Irving Kristol, Encounter, volume 56, page 54",
          "text": "There are digressions on literature and the cinema and the tarot pack and crap-shooting and — above all, since Anthony Burgess has ever been a logodaedalus — language.",
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          "ref": "2015, Peter E. Meltzer, The Thinker's Thesaurus",
          "text": "For example, Iain Gale of the Independent wrote of “the logodaedalus's universal sentence, 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,\", which uses all the letters of the alphabet.",
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          "ref": "2018, Alexander Marr, Raphaele Garrod, Jose Ramon Marcaida, Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe",
          "text": "Yet this enterprise was a slippery one; fictitious etymologies and overclever wordplay were the province of the logodaedalus: a dangerously cunning wordsmith..",
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