= sesquipedalian, adj.
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释义 | society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > using words of many syllables > of words: having many syllables (5) sesquipedal1611 = sesquipedalian, adj. foot-and-half-foot1616 (of a word) having many syllables; = sesquipedalian, adj. 1a. sesquipedalian1656 Of words and expressions (after Horace's sesquipedalia verba ‘words a foot and a half long’, A.P. 97): Of many syllables. tripod1798 ? Uttered as from the tripod, oracular; or ? three feet long (figurative: cf. sesquipedalian, adj. 1). crink-crank1865 Of a word: long and drawn from elevated or literary vocabulary; sesquipedalian. |
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