exeleutherostomize

verb

To speak out freely, especially at an inappropriate moment.

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Meanings

verbexeleutherostomize (third-person singular simple present exeleutherostomizes, present participle exeleutherostomizing, simple past and past participle exeleutherostomized)

present singular third person exeleutherostomizes · participle present exeleutherostomizing · participle past exeleutherostomized · past exeleutherostomized

  1. rareTo speak out freely, especially at an inappropriate moment.

    The offices of a General Manager of one of the few national banks is not the place to exeleutherostomise.

    1973, Bryan Stanley Johnson, Christie Malry's Own Double-entry, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 12
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    The heroes of the Iliad—shall we hide it to live, or exeleutherostomize it and die?—are for the most part boors.

    1854, C. D. Badham, Prose Halieutics, page 181

    Burgess has had time to add to the world's memorable stock of philosophical conundrums, worldly glosses, kindly judgments, liberating verbal experiments — and when he has been given a decently grateful interval to exeleutherostomize.

    1974, Paul W. Boytinck, Anthony Burgess: an enumerative bibliography, with selected annotations

Origin

as if Greek *ἐξελευθεροστομίζειν, < ἐξ out + ἐλεύθερος free + στόμα mouth + -ίζ verbal suffix + -ειν infinitive ending.

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