† macrologyn.

Forms: 1600s macrologie, 1600s–1700s macrology.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin macrologia.

Etymology: < classical Latin macrologia < ancient Greek μακρολογία < μακρός macro- comb. form + -λογία (see -logy comb. form). N.E.D. (1904) gives the pronunciation as (mæ̆krǫ·lŏdʒi) /mæˈkrɒlədʒɪ/.

Obsolete.

(a) As a rhetorical figure: the use of redundant words or phrases. (b) gen. Prolixity of speech.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > pleonasm

long language1521

pleonasmus1533

macrologya1538

perissology1583

pleonasm1610

a1538 W. Holme Fall & Euill Successe Rebellion (1572) sig. Biv What should I recounte the Rebellion of Cresius, With a thousand such moe, to make macrologie, My matter to prolong?

1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Macrologie, long and tedious talke.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Macrology, prolixity in speaking.

1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 58 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. The Macrology and Pleonasm, are as generally coupled, as a lean Rabbit with a fat one.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	macrology
释义	† macrologyn. Forms: 1600s macrologie, 1600s–1700s macrology. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin macrologia. Etymology: < classical Latin macrologia < ancient Greek μακρολογία < μακρός macro- comb. form + -λογία (see -logy comb. form). N.E.D. (1904) gives the pronunciation as (mæ̆krǫ·lŏdʒi) /mæˈkrɒlədʒɪ/. Obsolete. (a) As a rhetorical figure: the use of redundant words or phrases. (b) gen. Prolixity of speech. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > pleonasm long language1521 pleonasmus1533 macrologya1538 perissology1583 pleonasm1610 a1538 W. Holme Fall & Euill Successe Rebellion (1572) sig. Biv What should I recounte the Rebellion of Cresius, With a thousand such moe, to make macrologie, My matter to prolong? 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Macrologie, long and tedious talke. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Macrology, prolixity in speaking. 1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 58 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. The Macrology and Pleonasm, are as generally coupled, as a lean Rabbit with a fat one. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1538
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