a. and sb. rare. [as if ad. L. *ēlocūtīv-us, f. ēloqui: see ELOCUTION.]
A. adj. That is concerned with utterance or eloquence. B. sb. An utterance.
1627. Feltham, Resolves, II. xlviii. (1677), 254. Though Preaching in it’s elocutive part be but the conception of Man.
1821. New Monthly Mag., II. 41. Mr. Manager … went through the appeasing elocutives of dumb show.
