lexiphanic
adjEtymology From Lexiphanes + -ic, after a character in the works of Lucian.
1
Using bombastic or pretentious wording or language.
- Dr. Johnson has given an explanation of this passage, which is an amusing specimen of his Lexiphanic style: "to feel the convulsions of eructation without plenitude."1852, Charles Knight, editor, The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: Tragedies, vol. 2., page 128:
- Synonyms
- magniloquent
- Derived terms
- lexiphanically
- Related terms
- lexiphanicism