magniloquy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin magniloquium.[1]
Noun
[edit]magniloquy (uncountable) (rare)
- Synonym of magniloquence
- 1810, Piomingo, The Savage, Philadelphia, Pa.: […] Thomas S. Manning; […], page 60:
- You must outpuff the puffers of this puffing people, and strike dumb the altiloquence of the immortal vendor of the barbal alkahest, and diamond paste by the terrisonous explosion of your altisonant and ceraunic magniloquy!
- 1824, “Art. III. The Broad Stone of Honour: or Rules for the Gentlemen of England. 12mo. 390 pp. 9s. Rivingtons.”, in The British Critic, volume XXII, London: […] for C. & J. Rivington, […]; By R. Gilbert, […], page 44:
- It is fortunate, for the sake of his conduct escaping misconstruction, that he is not a clerical descendant of some of those worthies, whose mottoes he perpetually holds forth to us as the very concentrated spirit of wisdom and honour, and whose names he occasionally parades with such Homeric magniloquy, from “the Marquises of Hertford, Newcastle, Worcester, and Ormond,” to the Esquires, “Sidney, Godolphin, Murray, Kenelm Digby, Bridgman, Luttrell, Dudley Smith, Lane.”
- 1894, Burt G. Wilder, “Terminology, Anatomical”, in edited by Albert H. Buck, A Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences Embracing the Entire Range of Scientific and Practical Medicine and Allied Science, volume VIII, New York, N.Y.: William Wood & Company, “Organonymy”, section 43, “Aphorisms Respecting Nomenclature”, page 520, column 2:
- Aph. XI. Of many anatomical terms, the chief characteristics are antiquity, magniloquy, and unintelligibility.
References
[edit]- ^ William Dwight Whitney, editor (1895), “magniloquy (mag-nil’ō-kwi), n.”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume V, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., page 3577, column 1.