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doctiloquent

/dɑkˈtɪ.lə.kwɛnt/

doctiloquent adjective: speaking learnedly.

Adjective

doctiloquent (comparative more doctiloquent, superlative most doctiloquent)

  1. (rare) Speaking learnedly.
    • Written in a spirit of conservation, Aestheticism and the Canadian Modernists is doctiloquent in a manner no longer quite fashionable.1989, Journal of Canadian Poetry,, page 172
    • 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.1992, Utopian Studies, Journal of the Society for Utopian Studies, Volume 3, Issue 1, p. 187

Forms of doctiloquent

comparativemore doctiloquent
superlativemost doctiloquent

Origin of doctiloquent

Coined from Latin doctī + loquēns, from genitive of doceō (“to teach”) + present participle of loquor (“to speak”). Compare eloquent.

Questions about doctiloquent

What does doctiloquent mean?
Doctiloquent means speaking learnedly.
What part of speech is doctiloquent?
Doctiloquent is an adjective.
How do you pronounce doctiloquent?
Doctiloquent is pronounced /dɑkˈtɪ.lə.kwɛnt/.

Words near doctiloquent in the dictionary

  1. DOCSIS
  2. docstring
  3. docstrings
  4. Docter
  5. Docters
  6. doctiloquent
  7. doctor
  8. Doctor Atkins
  9. doctor bird
  10. doctor birds
  11. doctor blade

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