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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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