orthoepicadj.

1677 F. Bampfield All in One i. 43 Whether in such a Scripture-Grammar, great wisdom and diligence should not be used, that the Orthoepick, and Orthographick part of it be so accommodated to the Original Languages, as that, the Scripture-Tongues may be more purely spoken.

1799 Critical Rev. Sept. 89 We are sorry to observe, in a work professedly orthoepic, a recommendation of inaccuracy.

1843 J. Holland Psalmists Brit. I. 9 The question of the orthœpic value of the Hebrew points.

1860 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. xxii. 470 It is often impossible to suggest any explanation of orthoepic mutations.

1882 H. E. Scudder Noah Webster ii. 38 The basis of orthoepic canons.

1901 Mod. Lang. Notes 16 121/1 In general, the explanation of the sounds is very insufficient, as are also the orthoëpic rules, even when judged from the standpoint of the author's method (key-words, etc.).

1969 Computers & Humanities 3 259 The authors aimed at producing a broad phonetic transcription similar to the phonetic transcription already established for orthoepic French.

1989 Amer. Speech 64 106 Except for an infrequent one or two letters inserted for orthoepic purposes, every constituent in the initialism must have a known lexical source.