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linˈguacious, a. rare.
Also linguaceous.
[f. L. linguāci-, linguax loquacious (f. lingua tongue) + -ous.]
1. Talkative, loquacious.
1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋80 We desire the linguacious Chymistry of these heads to tell us. 1727in Bailey vol. II. 1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie I. xi. 329 On the summit, Obed fully expected to encounter Esther, of whose linguacious powers, he had too often been furnished with the most sinister proofs. 1950J. Y. T. Greig Thackeray xiii. 142 She needed it [sc. the gift of listening] with a witty and linguacious fellow for a husband. a1953Dylan Thomas Quite Early One Morning (1954) 64 And see, too, in that linguaceous stream, the tall monocled men..who lecture to women's clubs.
†2. Linguistic. (A bad use.) Obs.
1814W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXIII. 499 The author..appears..after having completed two volumes of selections from the antient writers, to have..acquired a respectable knowledge..of their linguacious peculiarities.
Hence † linˈguaciousness.
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