a. Obs. rare. [f. L. linguāci-, linguax loquacious (f. lingua tongue) + -OUS.]
1. Talkative, loquacious.
1651. Biggs, New Disp., ¶ 80. We desire the linguacious Chymistry of these heads to tell us.
1727. in Bailey, vol. II.
2. Linguistic. (A bad use.)
1814. W. Taylor, in Monthly Rev., LXXIII. 499. The author … appears … after having completed two volumes of selections from the antient writers, to have … acquired a respectable knowledge … of their linguacious peculiarities.
Hence † Linguaciousness.
1727. in Bailey, vol. II.
