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magniloquent, a.|mægˈnɪləkwənt|
[f. L. magniloqu-us (of the same meaning), f. magnus great + -loquus speaking + -ent.]
Of persons, hence of utterances or compositions: Lofty or ambitious in expression, grandiloquent. Also, occas., ‘talking big’, boastful.
1656Blount Glossogr., Magniloquent, that useth a stately manner of speaking or writeing. 1659Gauden Slight Healers (1660) 10 Really they are no other than imperious Hypocrites, magniloquent Montebanks. 1849Longfellow Kavanagh xxi. Pr. Wks. 1886 II. 345 A large basket, containing what the Squire..in Don Quixote, called his ‘fiambreras’,—that magniloquent Castilian word for cold collation. 1854Thackeray Newcomes I. xxiii. 222 She was a trifle more magniloquent than usual, and entertained us with stories of colonial governors and their ladies. 1891T. R. Lounsbury Stud. Chaucer I. iv. 426 If he meant intentionally to describe so slight a performance in so magniloquent a manner.
¶b. Misused for: Pompous, ‘mouthing’.
1850Kingsley Alt. Locke viii, I read my verses aloud in as resonant and magniloquent a voice as I could command.
Hence magˈniloquently adv.
1849Fraser's Mag. XL. 12 So he, magniloquently, as was his wont [etc.]. 1892Stevenson Across the Plains iii. 141 To finish a study and magniloquently ticket it a picture. |