doctiloquent
adj/dɑkˈtɪ.lə.kwɛnt/
Etymology
Coined from Latin doctī + loquēns, from genitive of doceō (“to teach”) + present participle of loquor (“to speak”). Compare eloquent.
- derived from doctī + loquēns
Definitions
Speaking learnedly.
- Written in a spirit of conservation, Aestheticism and the Canadian Modernists is doctiloquent in a manner no longer quite fashionable.
- It is a magisterial, doctiloquent guidebook, written with a care to ensure that readers never lose sight of its thesis or drift too far out of soundings.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA