Words for All Seasons No. 2

Barbara, n:
Logic
A term designating the first mood of the first figure of syllogisms. A syllogism in Barbara is one of which both the major and minor premisses, and the conclusion, are universal affirmatives: thus, all animals are mortal; all men are animals; {ergo} all men are mortal.
Etym: Look it up in a logic textbook. It's complex, but brilliant.

"There were two forms of Protestantism, one before and one after the reign of Mary Tudor. The first was greedy, aggressive, regardless of the lives and consciences of others; borrowing and using without stint the offensive weapons of the old Faith it had so loudly condemned; and tyrannizing with its Barbara and Celarent over the harmless weaknesses of men. The other, though not without its faults, was tender and heroic, touched with the fires and memories of Smithfield."
From the introduction to Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII, ed. J.S. Brewer, p. cciii, 1875.