orthoepicaladj.

1735 B. Martin Philos. Gram. sig. Y4 An Alphabetical, Orthographical, and Orthoepical Index; Wherein All the philosophical Words and Terms of Art, contained in, the foregoing Treatise, are duly accented in Order to their true Pronunciation.

1749 B. Martin (title) Lingua britannica reformata: or a universal English dictionary..universal, etymological, orthographical, orthoepical, diacritical.

1803 T. Carpenter (title) The scholar's orthographical and orthoepical assistant.

1809 T. Batchelor (title) An orthoëpical analysis of the English language.

1832 New-Eng. Mag. Dec. 486 When we have passed the Potomac, and the discord of strange sounds increases upon the ear..and yet, who sees or feels the result of these mutual exhibitions of orthoepical errors?

1869 A. J. Ellis On Early Eng. Pronunc. I. i. iv. 405 Final e in the 16th century..had come to be regarded mainly as an orthoepical symbol.

1959 Mod. Lang. Notes 74 356 The orthoepical evidence is largely theoretical, obscure, or grounded on spelling, dialect, or archaic pronunciation.

1836 Southern Lit Rev. 2 480/2 The first advertisement contained a promise ‘to teach English Grammar orthoepically’.

1858 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 301 [The term Counsel] was etymologically correct enough, however orthoepically erroneous.

1975 Amer. Speech 48 113 Being perhaps abnormally tenacious orthoepically and considerably past middle age, I use [æ] in all these words, but scholars and laymen alike have been seen to wince at the crudity of my speech.