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#552. [Suppression of sign.] Obliteration. -- N. obliteration;
erasure, rasure; cancel, cancellation; circumduction; deletion, blot;
tabula rasa; effacement, extinction.
V. efface, obliterate, erase, rase, expunge, cancel; blot out, take
out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash out, sponge out; wipe
off, rub off; wipe away; deface, render illegible; draw the pen through,
apply the sponge.
be effaced &c.; leave no trace &c. 550; "leave not a rack behind."
Adj. obliterated &c. v.; out of print; printless; leaving no trace;
intestate; unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten.
Int. dele; out with it!
Phr. delenda est Carthago [Cato].

#553. Recorder. -- N. recorder, notary, clerk; registrar, registrary,
register; prothonotary; amanuensis, secretary, scribe, babu, remembrancer,
bookkeeper, custos rotulorum, Master of the Rolls.
annalist; historian, historiographer; chronicler, journalist;
biographer &c. (narrator) 594; antiquary &c. (antiquity) 122; memorialist;
interviewer.

#554. Representation. -- N. representation, representment; imitation
&c. 19; illustration, delineation, depictment; imagery, portraiture,
iconography; design, designing; art, fine arts; painting &c. 556; sculpture
&c. 557; engraving &c. 558; photography, cinematography; radiography,
autoradiography, fluorography, sciagraphy.
personation, personification; impersonation; drama &c. 599.
picture.
copy &c. 21; drawing, sketch, drought, draft; plot, chart, figure,
scheme.
image, likeness, icon, portrait , striking likeness, speaking
likeness; very image; effigy, facsimile.
figure , figure head; puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay-
figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust; statue,
statuette.
hieroglyphic, anaglyph; diagram, monogram.
map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation; ichnography,
cartography; atlas; outline, scheme; view &c. (painting) 556; radiograph,
scotograph, sciagraph; spectrogram, heliogram.
V. represent, delineate; depict, depicture; portray; take a likeness,
catch a likeness &c. n.; hit off, photograph, daguerreotype; snapshot;
figure, shadow forth, shadow out; adumbrate; body forth; describe &c. 594;
trace, copy; mold.
dress up; illustrate, symbolize.
paint &c. 556; carve &c. 557; engrave &c. 558.
personate, personify; impersonate; assume a character; pose as; act;
play &c. (drama) 599; mimic &c. (imitate) 19; hold the mirror up to nature.
Adj. represent, representing &c. v., representative; *illustrative;
represented &c. v.; imitative, figurative; iconic.
like &c. 17; graphic &c. (descriptive) 594; cinquecento quattrocento,
trecento.

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#555. Misrepresentation. -- N. misrepresentation, distortion,
caricatura|, exaggeration; daubing &c. v.; bad likeness, daub, sign
painting; scratch, caricature; anamorphosis; burlesque, falsification,
misstatement; parody, lampoon, take-off, travesty.
V. misrepresent, distort, overdraw, exaggerate, caricature, daub;
burlesque, parody, travesty.
Adj. misrepresented &c. v.



#556. Painting. -- N. painting; depicting; drawing &c. v.; design;
perspective, sciagraphy, skiagraphy; chiaroscuro &c. (light) 420
composition; treatment.
historical painting, portrait painting, miniature painting; landscape
painting, marine painting; still life, flower painting, scene painting;
scenography.
school, style; the grand style, high art, genre, portraiture;
ornamental art &c. 847.
monochrome, polychrome; grisaille.
pallet, palette; easel; brush, pencil, stump; black lead, charcoal,
crayons, chalk, pastel; paint &c. (coloring matter) 428; watercolor, body
color, oil color; oils, oil paint; varnish &c. 356a, priming; gouache,
tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass; enamel; encaustic painting;
mosaic; tapestry.
photography, heliography, color photography; sun painting.
picture, painting, piece, tableau, canvas; oil painting &c.; fresco,
cartoon; easel picture, cabinet picture, draught, draft; pencil &c.
drawing, water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink; sketch,
outline, study.
photograph, color photograph, black-and-white photograph, holograph,
heliograph; daguerreotype, talbotype, calotype, heliotype.
portrait &c. (representation) 554; whole length, full length, half
length; kitcat, head; miniature; shade, silhouette; profile.
landscape, seapiece; view, scene, prospect; panorama, diorama; still
life.
picture gallery, exhibit; studio, atelier; pinacotheca.
V. paint, design, limn draw, sketch, pencil, scratch, shade, stipple,
hatch,
dash off, chalk out, square up; color, dead color, wash, varnish; draw in
pencil
&c. n.; paint in oils &c. n.; stencil; depict &c. (represent) 554.
Adj. painted &c. v.; pictorial, graphic, picturesque.
pencil, oil &c. n.
Adv. in pencil &c. n.
Phr. fecit, delineavit; mutum est pictura poema.

#557. Sculpture. -- N. sculpture, insculpture| ; carving &c. v.;
statuary.
high relief, low relief, bas relief; relief; relieve; bassorilievo,
altorilievo, mezzorilievo; intaglio, anaglyph; medal, medallion; cameo.
marble, bronze, terra cotta, papier-mache; ceramic ware, pottery,
porcelain, china, earthenware; cloisonne, enamel, faience, Laocoon,
satsuma.
statue.&c. (image) 554; cast &c (copy) 21; glyptotheca.
V. sculpture, carve, cut, chisel, model, mold; *cast.
Adj. sculptured &c, v. in refief, anaglyptic, ceroplastic, ceramic;
parian; marble &c. n.; xanthian.

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#558. Engraving. -- N. engraving, chalcography; line engraving,
mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving; dry point, bur;
etching, aquatinta; chiseling; plate engraving, copperplate engraving,
steel engraving, wood engraving; xylography, lignography, glyptography,
cerography, lithography, chromolithography, photolithography, zincography,
glyphograph,y xylograph, lignograph, glyptograph, cerograph, lithograph,
chromolithograph, photolithograph, zincograph, glyphograph, holograph.
impression, print, engraving, plate; steelplate, copperplate; etching;
mezzotint, aquating, lithotint; cut, woodcut; stereotype, graphotype,
autotype, heliotype.
graver, burin, etching point, style; plate, stone, wood block,
negative; die, punch, stamp.
printing; plate printing, copperplate printing, anastatic printing,
color printing, lithographic printing; type printing &c. 591; three-color
process.
illustration, illumination; half tone; photogravure; vignette, initial
letter, cul de lampe, tailpiece.
V. engrave, grave, stipple, scrape, etch; bite, bite in; lithograph
&c., n.; print.
Adj. insculptured; engraved &c. v.
Phr. sculpsit, imprimit.

#559. Artist. -- N. artist; painter, limner, drawer, stketcher,
designer, engraver; master, old master; draughtsman; copyist, dauber, hack;
enamel, enameler, enamelist; caricaturist.
historical painter, landscape painter, marine painter, flower painter,
portrait painter, miniature painter, miniaturist, scene painter, sign
painter, coach painter; engraver; Apelles; sculptor, carver, chaser,
modeler, figuriste, statuary; Phidias, Praxiteles; Royal Academician.
photographer, cinematographer, lensman, cameraman, camera technician,
camera buff; wildlife photographer.
Phr. photo safari; "with gun and camera"


2. Conventional Means
1
. Language generally

#560. Language. -- N. language; phraseology &c. 569; speech &c. 582;
tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongu, native tongue;
household words; King's or Queen's English; dialect &c. 563.
confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie; pantomime &c. (signs) 550;
onomatopoeia; betacism, mimmitation, myatism, nunnation; pasigraphy.
lexicology, philogy, glossology, glottology; linguistics,
chrestomathy; paleology, paleography; comparative grammar.
literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses,
humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages,
classics; genius of language; scholarship &c. (scholar) 492.
V. express by words &c. 566.
Adj. lingual, linguistic; dialectic; vernacular, current; bilingual;
diglot, hexaglot, polyglot; literary.
Phr. "syllables govern the world" [Selden].

#561. Letter. -- N. letter; character; hieroglyphic &c. (writing) 590;
type &c. (printing) 591; capitals; digraph, trigraph; ideogram, ideograph;
majuscule, minuscule; majuscule, minuscule; alphabet, ABC, abecedary,
christcross-row.
consonant, vowel; diphthong, triphthong; mute, liquid, labial, dental,
guttural. syllable; monosyllable, dissyllable, polysyllable; affix, suffix.
spelling, orthograph; phonography, phonetic spelling; anagrammatism,
metagrammatism. cipher, monogram, anagram; doubleacrostic.
V. spell.
Adj. literal; alphabetical, abecedarian; syllabic; majuscular,
minuscular; uncial &c. (writing) 590.

#562. Word. -- N. word, term, vocable; name &c. 564; phrase &c. 566;
root, etymon; derivative; part of speech &c. (grammar) 567; ideophone.
dictionary, vocabulary, lexicon, index, glossary, thesaurus, gradus,
delectus, concordance.
etymology, derivation; glossology, terminology orismology; paleology
&c. (philogy) 560.
lexocography; glossography &c. (scholar) 492; lexicologist, verbarian.
Adj. verbal, literal; titular, nominal. [Similarly derived] conjugat,
paronymous; derivative.
Adv. verbally &c. adj.; verbatim &c. (exactly) 494.
Phr. " the artillery of words" [Swift].

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#563. Neologism. -- N. neology, neologism; newfangled expression;
caconym; barbarism; archaism, black letter, monkish Latin; corruption,
missayingk, antiphrasis.
paranomasia, play upon words; word play &c. (wit) 842; double-entendre
&c. (ambiguity) 520; palindrome, paragram, clinch; abuse of language, abuse
of terms.
dialect, brogue, patois, provincialism, broken English, lingua fraca;
Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism;
Gypsy lingo, Romany, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto,
Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir.
dog Latin, macaronics, gibberish; confusion of tongues, Babel; jargon;
babu English, chi-chi.
colloquialism &c. (figure of speech) 521; byword; technicality, lingo,
slang, cant, argot, St. Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French,
flash tongue, Billingsgate, Wall Street slang.
pseudology.
pseudonym &c. (misnomer) 565; Mr. So-and-so; wha d'ye call 'em,
whatchacallim, what's his name; thingummy, thingumbob; je ne sais quoi.
neologist, coiner of words.
V. coin words; Americanize, Anglicize.
Adj. neologic, neological; archaic; obsolete &c. (old) 124;
colloquial; Anglice.

#564. Nomenclature. -- N. nomenclature; naming &c. v.; nuncupation|,
nomination, baptism; orismology; onomatopoeia; antonomasia.
name; appelation, appelative; designation title; heading; caption;
denomination; by-name, epithet.
style, proper name; praenomen, agnomen, cognomen; patronymic, surname;
cognomination; eponym; compellation, description, antonym; empty title,
empty name; handle to one's name; namesake.
term, expression, noun;.byword; convertible terms &c. 522; technical
term; cant &c. 563.
V. name, call, term, denominate designate, style, entitle, clepe, dub,
christen, baptize, characterize, specify, define, distinguish by the name
of; label &c. (mark) 550.
be -called &c v.; take the name of, bean the name of, go (or be known ) by
the name of, go (or pass) under th ename of, rejoice in the name of.
Adj. named &c. v.; hight, yeleped, known as; what one may well, call
fairly, call properly, call fitly.
nuncupatory, nuncupative; cognominal, titular, nominal, orismological.
Phr. "beggar'd all description" [Antony and Cleopatra].

#565. Misnomer. -- N. misnomer; lucus a non lucendo;; Mrs. Malaprop;
what d'ye call 'em &c. (neologism) 563; Hoosier.
nickname, sobriquet, by-name; assumed name, assumed title; alias; nom
de course, nom de theatre, nom de guerre, nom de plume; pseudonym,
pseudonymy.
V. misname, miscall, misterm; nickname; assume a name.
Adj. misnamed &c. v.; pseudonymous; soi-disant; self called, self
styled, self christened; so-called.
nameless, anonymous; without a having no name; innominate, unnamed;
unacknowledged.
Adv. in no sense.

#566. Phrase. -- N. phrase, expression, set phrase; sentence,
paragraph; figure of speech &c. 521; idiom, idiotism; turn of expression;
style.
paraphrase &c. (synonym) 522; periphrase &c. (circumlocution) 573
motto &c. (proverb) 496.
phraseology &c. 569.
V. express, phrase; word, - it; give -words, - expression -to; voice
arrange in word, clothe in words, put into words, express by words; couch
in terms; find words to express; speak by the card; call, denominate,
designate, dub.
Adj. expressed &c. v.; idiomatic.
Adv. in round, in set, in good, set- terms; inset phrases.

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#567. Grammar. -- N. grammar, accidence, syntax, praxis, punctuation;
parts of speech; jussive; syllabication; inflection, case, declension,
conjugation; us et norma loquendi; Lindley Murray &c. (schoolbook) 542;
correct style, philology &c. (language) 560.
V. parse, punctuate, syllabicate.

#568. Solecism. -- N. solecism; bad grammar, false grammar, faulty
grammar; slip of the pen, slip of the tongue; lapsus linguae; slipslop;
bull; barbarism, impropriety.
V. use bad grammar, faulty grammar; solecize, commit a solecism;
murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English, break Priscian's
head.
Adj. ungrammatical; incorrect, inaccurate; faulty; improper,
incongruous; solecistic, solecistical.

#569. Style. -- N. style, diction, phraseology, wording; manner,
strain; composition; mode of expression, choice of words; mode of speech,
literary power, ready pen, pen of a ready writer; command of language &c.
(eloquence) 582; authorship; la morgue litteraire..
V. express by words &c. 566; write.
Phr. le style *c'est de l'homme [Buffon]; "style is the dress of
thoughts " [Chesterfield].

Various Qualities of Style

#570. Perspicuity. -- N. perspicuity, perspicuousness &c.
(intelligibility) 518; plain speaking &c. (manifestation) 525;
definiteness, definition; exactness &c. 494; explicitness, lucidness.
Adj. lucid &c. (intelligible) 518; explicit &c. (manifest) 525; exact
&c. 494.

#571. Obscurity. -- N. obscurity &c. (unintelligibility) 519;
involution; hard words; ambiguity &c. 520; unintelligibleness; vagueness
&c. 475, inexactness &c. 495; what d'ye call 'em &c. (neologism) 563;
darkness of meaning.
Adj. obscure &c. n.; crabbed, involved, confused.

#572. Conciseness. -- N. conciseness &c. adj.; brevity, " the soul of
wit," laconism; Tacitus; ellipsis; syncope; abridgment &c. (shortening)
201; compression &c. 195; epitome &c. 596; monostich; brunch word,
portmanteau word.
V. be concise &c. adj.; condense &c. 195; abridge &c. 201; abstract
&c. 596; come to the point.
Adj. concise, brief, short, terse,close; to the point, exact; neat,
compact; compressed, condensed, pointed; laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant,
summary; pregnant; compendious &c. (compendium) 596; succinct; elliptical,
epigrammatic, quaint, crisp; sententious.
Adv. concisely &c. adj.; briefly, summarily; in brief, in short, in a
word, in a few words; for shortness sake; to come to the point, to make a
long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief; it comes to this,
the long and the short of it is.
Phr. brevis esse laboro obscurus fio [Horace].

#573. Diffuseness. -- N. diffuseness &c. adj.; amplification &c. v.;
dilating &c. v.; verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum; flow
of words &c. (loquacity) 584; looseness.
Polylogy, tautology, battology, perissology|; pleonasm, exuberance,
redundance; thrice-told tale; prolixity; circumlocution, ambages ;
periphrase, periphrasis; roundabout phrases; episode; expletive; pennya-
lining; richness &c. 577.
V. be diffuse &c. adj.; run out on, descant, expatiate, enlarge,
dilate, amplify, expand, inflate; launchout, branchout; rant.
maunder, prose; harp upon &c. (repeat) 104; dwell on, insist upon.
digress, ramble, battre la campagne, beat about the bush, perorate,
spin a long yarn, protract; spin out, swell out, draw out; battologize.
Adj. diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent|, copious,
exuberant, pleonast'c, lengthy; longsome, longwinded, longspun, longdrawn
out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory,
periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive;
loose; rambling episodic; flatulent, frothy.
Adv. diffusely &c. adj.; at large, in extenso; about it and about it.

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#574. -- N. vigor, power, force; boldness, raciness &c. adj.;
intellectual, force; spirit, point, antithesis, piquancy; verve, glow,
fire, warmth; strong language; gravity, sententiousness; elevation,
loftiness, sublimity.
eloquence; command of words, command of language.
Adj. vigorous, nervous, powerfor, forcible, trenchang, incisive,
impressive; sensational.
spirited, lively, glowing, sparkling, racy, bold, slashing; pungent,
piquant, full of point, pointed, pithy, antithetical; sententious.
lofty, elevated, sublime; eloquent; vehement, petulant, impassioned;
poetic.
Adv. in glowing terms, in good set terms, in no measured terms.
Phr. "thoughts that breath and words that burn" [Gray].

#575. Feebleness. -- N. feebleness &c. adj.
Adj. feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, trashy, cold, frigid,
poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic;
unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy; sketchy, slight; careless,
slovenly, loose, lax; slipslod, slip slop; inexact; puerile, childish;
flatulent; rambling &c. (diffuse) 573.

#576. Plainness. -- N. plainness &c. adj.; simplicity, severity; plain
terms, plain English; Saxon English; household words
V. call a spade "a spade"; plunge in medias res; come to the point.
Adj. plain, simple; unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished; homely,
homespun; neat; severe, chaste, pure, Saxon; commonplace, matter-of-fact,
natural, prosaic.
dry, unvaried,monotonous &c. 575.
Adv. in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English, in plain common
parlance; point-blank.

#577. Ornament. -- N. ornament; floridness c. adj. turgidity,
turgescence; altiloquence &c. adj.; declamation, teratiology; well-rounded
periods; elegance &c. 578; orotundity.
inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasio; figurativeness &c.
(metaphor) 521.
flourish; flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric; frills of style,
euphuism, euphemism.
big-sounding words, high-sounding words; macrology, sespuipedalia
verba, Alexandrine; inflation, pretension; rant, bombast, fustian, prose
run mad; fine writing; sesquipedality; Minerva press.
phrasemonger; euphuist, euphemist.
V. ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge; smell of the lamp.
Adj. ornament &c. v.; beautified &c. 847; ornate, florid, rich,
flowery; euphuistic, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding;
inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted;
orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory;
grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent; sesquipedal,
sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy,
flaming.
antithetical, alliterative; figurative &c. 521; artificial &c.
(inelegant) 579.
Adv. ore rutundo.

#578. Elegance. -- N elegance, purity, grace, ease; gracefulness,
readiness &c. adj.; concinnity, euphony, numerosity; Atticism,
classicalism, classicism.
well rounded periods, well turned periods, flowing periods; the right
word in the right place; antithesis &c. 577.
*purist.
V. point an antithesis, round a period.
Adj. elegant, polished, classical, Attic, correct, Cieceronian,
artistic; chaste, pure, Saxon, academical.
graceful, easy, readable, fluent, flowing, tripping; unaffected,
natural, unlabored; mellifluous; euphonious, euphemism, euphemistic;
numerose|, rhythmical.
felicitous, happy, neat; well put, neatly put, well expressed, neatly
expressed

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#579. Inelegance. -- N. inelegance; stiffness &c. adj.; "unlettered
Muse" [Gray]; barbarism; slang &c. 563; solecism &c. 568; mannerism &c.
(affectation) 855; euphuism; fustian &c. 577; cacophony; words that break
the teeth, words that dislocate the jaw; marinism.
V. be inelegant &c. adj.
Adj. inelegant, graceless, ungraceful; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff,
cramped, formal, guinde; forced, labored; artificial, mannered, ponderous;
awkward, uncourtly, unpolished; turgid &c. 577; affected, euphuistic;
barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting; offensive to ears
polite.
2. Spoken Language

#580. Voice. -- N. voice; vocality; organ, lungs, bellows; good voice,
fine voice, powerful voice &c. (loud) 404;, musical voice &c. 413;
intonation; tone of voice &c. (sound) 402 .
vocalization; cry &c. 411; strain, utterance, prolation; exclamation,
ejaculation, vociferation, ecphonesis; enunciation, articulation;
articulate sound, distinctness; clearness, of articulation; stage whisper;
delivery.
accent, accentuation; emphasis, stress; broad accent, strong accent,
pure accent, native accent, foreign accent; pronunciation.
[Word similarly pronounced] homonym.
orthoepy; cacoepy; euphony &c. (melody) 413.
gastriloquism, ventriloquism; ventriloquist; polyphonism, polyphonist.
[Science of voice] phonology &c. (sound) 402.
V. utter, breathe; give utterance, give tongue; cry &c. (shout) 411;
ejaculate, rap out; vocalize, prolate|, articulate, enunciate, pronounce,
accentuate, aspirate, deliver, mouth; whisper in the ear.
Adj. vocal, phonetic, oral; ejaculatory, articulate, distinct,
stertorous; euphonious &c. (melodious) 413.
Phr. "how sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman" [Massinger]; "the
organ of the soul" [Longfellow]; "thy voice is a celestial melody"
[Longfellow].

#581. Aphony. -- N. aphony, aphonia; dumbness &c. adj.; obmutescence;
absence of voice, want of voice; dysphony; cacoopy; silence &c.
(taciturnity) 585; raucity; harsh voice &c. 410 , unmusical voice &c. 414 ;
falsetto, "childish treble mute"; dummy.
V. keep silence &c. 585; speak low, speak softly; whisper &c.
(faintness) 405.
silence; render mute, render silent; muzzle, muffle, suppress,
smother, gag, strike dumb, dumfounder; drown the voice, put to silence,
stop one's mouth, cut one short.
stick in the throat.
Adj. aphonous, dumb, mute; deafmute, deaf and dumb; mum; tongue-tied;
breatless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless; mute as a fish,
mute as a stockfish, mute as a mackerel; silent &c. (taciturn) 585;
muzzled; inarticulate, inaudible.
croaking, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a
raven; rough.
Adv. with bated breath, with the finger on the lips; sotto voce; in a
low tone, in a cracked voice, in a broken voice.
Phr. vox faucibus haesit [Vergil].

#582. Speech. -- N. speech, faculty of speech; locution, talk,
parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth,
parole, palaver, prattle; effusion.
oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon,
tirade, formal speech, peroration; speechifying; soliloquy &c. 589;
allocution &c. 586; interlocution &c. 588; salutatory [U.S.]: screed:
valedictory [U.S.].
oratory; elocution, eloquence; rhetoric, declamation; grandiloquence,
multiloquence; burst of eloquence; facundity; flow of words, command of
words, command of language; copia verborum; power of speech, gift of the
gab; usus loquendi.
speaker &c. v.; spokesman; prolocutor, interlocutor; mouthpiece,
Hermes; orator, oratrix, oratress; Demosthenes, Cicero; rhetorician; stump
orator, platform orator; speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore.
V. speak of; say, utter, pronounce, deliver, give utterance to; utter
forth, pour forth; breathe, let fall, come out with; rap out, blurt out
have on one's lips; have at the end of one's tongue, have at the tip of
one's tongue.
break silence; open one's lips, open one's mouth; lift one's voice,
raise one's voice; give the tongue, wag the tongue; talk, outspeak; put in
a word or two.
hold forth; make a speech,.deliver a speech &c. n.; speechify,
harangue, declaim, stump, flourish, recite, lecture, sermonize, discourse,
be on one's legs; have one's say, say one's say; spout, rant, rave, vent
one's fury, vent one's rage; expatiate &c. (speak at length) 573; speak
one's mind, go on the stump, take the stump [U. S.].
soliloquize &c. 589; tell &c. (inform) 527; speak to &c. 586; talk
together &c. 588.
be eloquent &c. adj; have a tongue in one's head, have the gift of the
gab &c. n.
pass one's lips, escape one's lips; fall from the lips, fall from the
mouth.
Adj. speaking &c., spoken &c. v.; oral, lingual, phonetic, not
written, unwritten, outspoken; eloquent, elocutionary; oratorical,
rhetorical; declamatory; grandiloquent &c. 577; talkative &c. 584;
Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian.
Adv. orally &c. adj.; by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of.
Phr. quoth he, said he &c.; "action is eloquence" [Coriolanus]; "pour
the full tide of eloquence along" [Pope]; "she speaks poignards and every
word stabs" [Much Ado About Nothing]; "speech is but broken light upon the
depth of the unspoken [G. Eliot]; "to try thy eloquence now 'tis time
[Antony and Cleopatra].

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