DOCTILOQUENT ADJ. speaking learnedly ...1656 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin doctus learned + loquent-em, present participle of loquī to speak FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1656 - Doctiloquent (dictiloquus) that speaks learnedly. From: Glossographia, or, A Dictionary Interpreting all such Hard Words of whatsoever language now used in our refined English tongue with etymologies, definitions and historical observations on the same - Thomas Blount EXAMPLE "...Written in a spirit of conservation, Aestheticism and the Canadian Modernists is doctiloquent in a manner no longer quite fashionable...." From: Journal of Canadian Poetry, 1989
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