overlanguaged
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]overlanguaged (comparative more overlanguaged, superlative most overlanguaged)
- (nonce word) Employing too many words; verbose.
- 1876, James Russell Lowell, “Keats”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 322:
- That he was overlanguaged at first there can be no doubt, and in this was implied the possibility of falling back to the perfect mean of diction.
Further reading
[edit]- “overlanguaged”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.