PAUCILOQUENT ADJ. speaking briefly; using few words in speech or conversation; laconic ...1656 rare ETYMOLOGY from pauci- (comb. form. of Latin paucus few, little) + Latin loquentem (speaking) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1656 - Pauciloquent (pauciloquus) that speaketh little From: Glossographia; Or, A Dictionary Interpreting all such Hard Words, of whatsoever language now used in our refined English tongue with Etymologies, Definitions and Historical Observations on the same - Thomas Blount EXAMPLE "...religious melancholy, with reservedness; weeping, howling, and pauciloquent; distressing complaints; dread of being left alone, of apparitions, of dead persons, ghosts, crawling worms, thieves, etc..." From: Special Therapeutics, According to Homoeopathic Principles - Franz Hartmann Third Volume. Mental Diseases Edited by Dr. G.H. G. Jahr Translated by John M. Galloway, 1857
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