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sesquipedalian
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synonyms: cubit, ell ???
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Definition:Measuring or containing a foot and a half; -- sometimes humorously applied to long words.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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when it took a whole basketful of sesquipedalian adjectives to whoop up a thing of beauty, it was time for suspicion.
Mark Twain. A Fable
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Visually, Stephen's: The traditional figure of hypostasis, depicted by Johannes Damascenus, Lentulus Romanus and Epiphanius Monachus as leucodermic, sesquipedalian with winedark hair. Auditively, Bloom's: The traditional accent of the ecstasy of catastrophe.James Joyce. Ulysses
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IMAGINE to yourself a little squat, uncourtly figure of a Doctor Slop, of about four feet and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a sesquipedality of belly, which might have done honour to a serjeant in the horse-guards.
Laurence Sterne. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759)
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