Hypertext Webster Gateway: "magniloquent"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Magniloquent \Mag*nil"o*quent\, a. [L. magnus great + loquens,
-entis, p. pr. of loqui to speak. See {Magnitude},
{Loquacious}.]
Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic;
tumid in style; grandiloquent. -- {Mag*nil"o*quent*ly}, adv.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
magniloquent
adj : lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never
really realizes what he is saying" [syn: {grandiloquent},
{tall}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.