lucus a non lucendoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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lucus a non lucendo

1. A form of illogical argument asserting that two things are related because they have opposite significations.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter IV, in The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling, Book VIII:

     This Sun, into which Jones was now conducted, was truly named, as lucus a non lucendo; for it was an apartment into which the sun had scarce ever looked.