Meanings
- rareuncountableSynonym of magniloquence.
Aph. XI. Of many anatomical terms, the chief characteristics are antiquity, magniloquy, and unintelligibility.
1894, Burt G. Wilder, “Terminology, Anatomical”, in Albert H. Buck, editor, A Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences Embracing the Entire Range of Scientific and Practical Medicine and Allied Science, volume VIII, New York, N.Y.: William Wood & Company, “Organonymy”, section 43, “Aphorisms Respecting Nomenclature”, page 520, column 22 more examples
You must outpuff the puffers of this puffing people, and strike dumb the altiloquence of the immortal vendor of the barbal alkahest, and diamond paste by the terrisonous explosion of your altisonant and ceraunic magniloquy!
1810, Piomingo, The Savage, Philadelphia, Pa.: […] Thomas S. Manning; […], page 60It is fortunate, for the sake of his conduct escaping misconstruction, that he is not a clerical descendant of some of those worthies, whose mottoes he perpetually holds forth to us as the very concentrated spirit of wisdom and honour, and whose names he occasionally parades with such Homeric magniloquy, from “the Marquises of Hertford, Newcastle, Worcester, and Ormond,” to the Esquires, “Sidney, Godolphin, Murray, Kenelm Digby, Bridgman, Luttrell, Dudley Smith, Lane.”
1824, “Art. III. The Broad Stone of Honour: or Rules for the Gentlemen of England. 12mo. 390 pp. 9s. Rivingtons.”, in The British Critic, volume XXII, London: […] for C. & J. Rivington, […]; By R. Gilbert, […], page 44Synonyms: magniloquence
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of magniloquence.
Origin
- Late Latinmagniloquium
- Englishmagniloquy
From Late Latin magniloquium. By surface analysis, magni- + -loquy.
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