| 单词 | long language |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslong language long language n. †(a) writing composed of words written in full, as distinguished from shorthand or cipher; cf. longhand n. (obsolete); (b) long-winded or verbose language (now rare). [In sense (b) rendering classical Latin macrologia or its etymon ancient Greek μακρολογία macrology n.] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > pleonasm long language1521 pleonasmus1533 macrologya1538 perissology1583 pleonasm1610 1521 tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Cyte of Ladyes i. xxxvi. sig. Mm.vv She founde dyuers maners of letters abreged that she tought the Egypcyans and gaue them fourme of theyr longe language [Fr. leur lengage trop lonc] to abrege it. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxii. 215 Macrologia, or long language, when we vse large clauses or sentences more than is requisite to the matter. a1794 E. Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) V. 589 If we compare these two Lexicons, the Greek in his long language must veil his bonnet to the German. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 34 Those Greeks did not use cypher, but the long language of the country. 1860 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 1 168/2 They commenced a lively interchange of long language, each charging the other with an assortment of polysyllabic crimes and petty larcenies. 2013 T. Russell Commons People xix. 336 You don't need to be able to speak in long language, you don't need to be able to go into the Chamber and speak in that weird nonsense speak that nobody understands. < as lemmas |
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