a. Obs. [incorrectly f. as prec. + -ULENT. (Or is it a misprint for florulent?)] Of speech or a speaker: Flowery.
1646. J. Hall, Horæ Vac., 104. But for private friendship, had it not onely allowance, but also praise, the Holy Spirit would not so oft have beene flosculent, when Hee touched here; nay, Christ have loved one Disciple. Ibid. (1652), Height Eloquence, p. vi. A scholastick affectation with a great deal of pains laboured into coldnesse, into which they fall who endeavouring either an exact flosculent, or delightfully formed speech make use of ill-favoured Tropes, and bad imitation.
