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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate DictionaryLo·gos \ˈlō-ˌgäs, -ˌgōs\ noun (plural Lo·goi  \-ˌgȯi\) ETYMOLOGY  Greek, speech, word, reason — more at legend DATE  15871. the divine wisdom manifest in the creation, government, and redemption of the world and often identified with the second person of the Trinity2. reason that in ancient Greek philosophy is the controlling principle in the universeEnglish Etymologylogos  1580s, "second person of the Christian Trinity," from Gk. logos"word, speech, discourse," also "reason," from PIE base *leg- "to collect" (with derivatives meaning "to speak," on notion of "to pick out words;" see lecture); used by Neo-Platonists in various metaphysical and theological senses and picked up by N.T. writers. Other Eng. formations from logos include logolatry "worship of words, unreasonable regard for words or verbal truth" (1810 in Coleridge); logomachy "fighting about words" (1560s); logomania(1870); logophobia (1923).Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridgedlo·gos\ˈlōˌgäs, ˈläˌgäs, ˈlōˌgōs, ˈlȯˌgȯs\ noun(plural lo·goi \-gȯi\)Etymology: Greek, word, reason, speech, account — more at legend1. often capitalized : reason or the manifestation of reason conceived in ancient Greek philosophy as constituting the controlling principle in the universe: a. : a moving and regulating principle in the universe together with an element in man by which according to Heraclitus this principle is perceived b. : a cosmic governing or generating principle according to the Stoics that is immanent and active in all reality and that pervades all reality c. : a principle that according to Philo is intermediate between ultimate or divine reality and the sensible world2. usually capitalized : the actively expressed creative revelatory thought and will of God identified in the prologue of the Gospel of St. John and in various Christian doctrinal works with the second person of the Trinity

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