| 释义 |
speechful, a.|ˈspiːtʃfʊl|
[f. speech n.1 Cf. OE. sprǽcful.]
a. Full of speech; possessing the power of speech; loquacious, talkative.
1842Mrs. Browning Grk. Chr. Poets 83 One speechful voice among the silent. 1861G. E. Maunsell Poems 246 Like a blest influence, Speechful, though dumb. 1873Mrs. Whitney Other Girls xxvi, She had..carried him to the nursery, got him on her knee in a speechful condition.
b. Of the eyes, etc.: Full of expression; expressive, speaking. Also const. of (some quality).
1820C. R. Maturin Melmoth the Wanderer IV. xxviii. 228 No form of Guido's, hovering in exquisite and speechful undulation between earth and heaven. a1849J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 83, I well could read her speechful eye. 1865E. Burritt Walk to Land's End xii. 407 He could not have made the expression of the central face more speechful of sadness. 1872Blackie Lays Highl. 18 Dost thou see the speechful eyne Of the fond and faithful creature Sorrowed with the swelling brine?
Hence ˈspeechfulness.
1880Meredith Tragic Com. (1881) 30 This man's face was the born orator's,..the animated mouth..stamped for speechfulness and enterprise. 190.Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. I. 414 (Cent. Suppl.), Sensory aphasia is..in the beginning..the aphasia of comparative speechfulness, while motor aphasia in the beginning is usually absolute speechlessness. |