loq.

verb

Loquitur; Used to identify the character who is speaking in a quotation

Meanings

verb
  1. Loquitur; Used to identify the character who is speaking in a quotation

    C. D. loq. 'case, whatever course I might prescribe to myself at 'starting.

    2011, John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens - Volume 1; Volumes 1812-1842, →ISBN, page 90
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    As You Like It, I. 2[Celia loq.] . " If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, I can tell who should down."

    1884, Arthur Parnell, “On Thunderbolts”, in The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology, Industrial Arts, Manufatures, and Technology, volume 6, page 721

    Art. 41 [Earl of East Friesland loq.] I pray you, what be the commodities that come out of England, and by what means be they so profitable?

    1979, George Nedham, George Daniel Ramsay, The Politics of a Tudor Merchant Adventurer, →ISBN
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