LOCUTORY

LOCUTORY

ADJ.
pert. to speech or speaking ...1828 rare
 
NOUN
a room or place for conversation;
esp. a room in a monastery, or, in later use, a convent, where
​monks were allowed to converse ...1483
 
ETYMOLOGY
from medieval Latin locutorium apartment in a monastery
set apart for conversation,
neut. of locutorius, from locutor one who speaks
from loqui talk
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1483 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...he brought him in to the parlour or locutory ..."

From: The Golden Legend or Lives Of The Saints
Compiled by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, 1275
Englished by William Caxton, 1483
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• The Encyclopaedic Dictionary, Robert Hunter, 1879-1888
• Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language,
Noah Porter, 1895