ETYMOLOGY
from Latin eloquium (eloquence) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Eloquious hoarie beard father Nestor, you were one of them, and you M. Vlisses the prudent dwarfe of Pallas another, of whome it is Illiadizd that your very nose dropt sugar candie, and that your spittle was honye. Natalis Comes if he were aboue ground…”
From: Lenten Stuffe
By Thomas Nashe, 1599
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