1. Of words and expressions (after Horace's sesquipedalia verba ‘words a foot and a half long’, A.P. 97): Of many syllables.b. transf. Given to using long words.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005
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Isn't it just so English to have a definition in the world's greatest dictionary legitimized in use by a quote from The Complete Lawn Tennis Player (1908)?
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