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stultiloquy|stʌlˈtɪləkwɪ|
[ad. L. stultiloquium, f. stultiloqu-us: see stultiloquence.]
A speaking foolishly, a foolish babbling.
1653Jer. Taylor Serm. Golden-Grove, Winter xxiii. 301 What they call facetiousnesse and pleasant wit, is indeed to all wise persons a meer Stultiloquy, or talking like a foole. 1826Examiner 190/1 A sort of unique stultiloquy governs some of the public deliberations of the owners and occupiers of land. 1867De Morgan in Athenæum 21 Dec. 852/3 Such a self-destructive congeries of stultiloquies. |