doctiloquent

English

Etymology

Coined from Latin doctī + loquēns, from genitive of doceō (“I teach”) + present participle of loquor (“I speak”). Compare eloquent.

Adjective

doctiloquent (comparative more doctiloquent, superlative most doctiloquent)

1. (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

Very rare and self-conscious, more often defined than used.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:learned

See also

• grandiloquent

References

• American Speech, Volume 2, University of Alabama Press, 1927, p. 420: ‘60. Doctiloquent. “that speaks learnedly”’