单词 | elocution |
释义 | elocutionn. a. Oratorical or literary expression of thought; literary ‘style’ as distinguished from ‘matter’; the power or art of appropriate and effective expression. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [noun] eloquence1382 elocution1509 gravity?1520 pith?1531 vigour1532 emphasy1548 energy?1549 emphasisa1555 pithiness1557 abruptness1591 emphaticalness1647 nervousness1727 cogency1750 forcibility1771 cogence1782 verve1803 forcefulness1825 force1842 snap1870 full-bloodedness1894 punch1901 compulsiveness1918 punchiness1938 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xi. i Elocusion with the powre of Mercury, The matir enorneth right well facundyously. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 4 Elocucion is an appliyng of apte wordes and sentences to the matter founde out to confirme the cause. 1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie Pref. sig. A.iiii v Why should we think so basely of this? rather then of her sister, I meane Rhetoricall Eloquution. 1634 W. Habington Castara Author sig. A2v How unhappy soever I may be in the elocution, I am sure the Theame is worthy enough. 1681 H. Neville Plato Redivivus 167 A Person of good Learning and Elocution. 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Elocution (with Rhetoricians) consists in apt expressing, and a beautiful order of placing of words. 1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) II. xi. 188 Your..acquaintance with those forms of elocution in which it is expressed. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > [noun] > that which is or can be spoken speechc897 saw9.. speech971 wordOE quideOE wordsOE wordOE thingOE rouna1225 mouthc1225 queatha1250 breathc1300 reasonc1300 speakingsa1325 swarec1325 saying1340 voicec1350 lorea1375 sermonc1385 carpc1400 gear1415 utterancec1454 parol1474 ditty1483 say1571 said1578 dictumc1586 palabra1600 breathing1606 bringinga1616 elocution?1637 rumblea1680 elocutive1821 vocability1841 deliverance1845 deliverment1850 deliverancy1853 verbalization1858 voicing1888 sayable1937 ?1637 T. Hobbes tr. Aristotle Briefe Art Rhetorique iii. vii. 163 Elocutions is made decent: 1. By speaking Feelingly..2. By speaking as becomes the Person of the Speaker [etc.] ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [noun] > eloquence fairnessOE fair speakinga1387 well-sayingc1425 eloquencec1430 facundie1447 dog eloquence1542 eloquency1545 elocution1593 dulciloquy1623 suaviloquencea1649 suaviloquy1658 articulacy1915 the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a speech > speeches elocution1593 occasional1649 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 39 a How shall I arme myne elocution. 1632 P. Massinger Emperour of East ii. i. sig. E2v Sheele tire mee with Her tedious Elocutions. 1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia (new ed.) 31 She began to be taken with his elocution [1641 (ed. 1) election]. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxviii. 241 To stirr the constancie..of any wise Man [is] above the genius of his Cleric elocution. 1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. iii. 283 When he speaks, what Elocution flows! 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ix. 549 Both elocution and address in arms. 3. Oral utterance; way or manner of speaking. Now only with some notion of 4. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > [noun] > utterance of vocal sound soundinga1387 utterancec1456 prelationa1525 elocution1623 vocification?1632 articulation1677 voicing1822 vocalization1828 voicing1831 phonation1842 phonesis1856 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Elocution, vtterance. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 748 Whose taste..Gave elocution to the mute. View more context for this quotation 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison II. xxix. 272 He had a lively and easy elocution. 1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams I. iii. 46 For this Mr. Tyrrel was indebted to a boisterous and overbearing elocution. 1795 E. Burke Let. in Wks. VII. 371 You have a natural, fluent, and unforced elocution. 1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 12 The clear and vigorous elocution of useless and senseless words. 4. The art of public speaking so far as it regards delivery, pronunciation, tones, and gestures; manner or style of oral delivery. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [noun] speechc1000 saying1340 accenta1398 tonguec1460 diction1563 address1581 elocution1604 tone1687 1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Elocution, good vtterance of speech. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Elocution, proper Speech, handsome utterance. 1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber iv. 70 True theatrical elocution. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 287 It..served to give zest and peculiarity to the style of elocution. 1864 Sat. Rev. 13 Dec. 819/1 The worst of the other system, that of boarding-schools and ‘elocution-masters’, is that, etc. Derivatives eloˈcutional adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [adjective] concionatory1634 concional1637 elocutive1661 concionary1681 eloquentiala1711 elocutory1817 orational1840 elocutionary1846 elocutional1933 1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Mar. 220/3 Sentence-form being in the main elocutional, there may be sentences without locutional sentence-form. eloˈcutionally adv. ΚΠ 1932 A. H. Gardiner Theory of Speech & Lang. v. 322 No sentence can be really elocutionally formless, since utterance itself imposes a certain minimum of form. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1509 |
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