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† ˈwordish, a. Obs.
[f. word n. + -ish1.]
1. Consisting in or concerned with words, esp. mere words (as opposed to realities); verbal: cf. wordy a. 3.
a1586Sidney Apol. Poetry (Arb.) 33 A perfect picture I say, for hee yeeldeth to the powers of the minde, an image of that whereof the Philosopher bestoweth but a woordish description. Ibid. 69 Both [Poetry and Oratory] haue such an affinity in this wordish consideration. 1657J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 36 Blundering the plainest truths with multitudes of wordish evasions. 1675Crowne Calisto v. 73 All wordish praise she is so much above That eloquence would prophanation prove. 1697J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 454 To make the Doctrine of Words to be a..part of Philosophy, is to make Philosophy Wordish.
2. Using, or containing, an excess of words; verbose: = wordy a. 1.
1604Scoloker Daiphantus Argt., More desirous to be thought honest, then so to be wordish beyond discretion. a1657R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 19, I have made my story too wordish;..I should have pared much away.
Hence † ˈwordishly adv., † ˈwordishness.
1657J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 26 Loquacity, that is, voluntary talking wordishly without a syllable of sense. Ibid. 390 The emptie wordishnes in his ‘Reply’. 1697― Solid Philos. 286 All the Wordishness, and empty Disputes among Trivial Philosophers. |