doctiloquent
English
editEtymology
editCoined from Latin doctī + loquēns, from genitive of doceō (“I teach”) + present participle of loquor (“I speak”). Compare eloquent.
Adjective
editdoctiloquent (comparative more doctiloquent, superlative most doctiloquent)
- (rare) Speaking learnedly.
- 1989, Journal of Canadian Poetry,, page 172:
- Written in a spirit of conservation, Aestheticism and the Canadian Modernists is doctiloquent in a manner no longer quite fashionable.
- 1992, Utopian Studies, Journal of the Society for Utopian Studies, Volume 3, Issue 1, p. 187:
- It is a magisterial, doctiloquent guidebook, written with a care to ensure that readers never lose sight of its thesis or drift too far out of soundings.
Usage notes
editVery rare and self-conscious, more often defined than used.
Synonyms
edit- See also Thesaurus:learned
See also
editReferences
edit- American Speech, Volume 2, University of Alabama Press, 1927, p. 420: ‘60. Doctiloquent. “that speaks learnedly”’