stultiloquy

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stultiloquium.

Noun

stultiloquy (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Foolish talk; babble.
    • 1651–1653, Jer Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ . A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. , 2nd edition, London: Richard Royston , published 1655, →OCLC:
      concerning stultiloquy it is to be observed that the masters of spiritual life mean not the talk and useless babble of weak and ignorant persons

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stultiloquy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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