a. rare. [ad. L. loquentem, pres. pple. of loquī to speak.] That speaks.
1593. R. Harvey, Philad., 101. He would be loquent as Mithridates, that could speake 22 languages.
a. 1619. Fotherby, Atheom., II. xii. § 1 (1622), 332. Of things loquent, and silent; of things moueable, and vnmoueable.
1654. H. L’Estrange, Reign Chas. I. (1655), 135. So rare is it for a man very eloquent, not to be over loquent.
1885. G. Meredith, Diana of Crossways, xi. (1890), 99. Redworth would have yielded her the loquent lead.
Hence Loquently adv., in point of talking.
1891. G. Meredith, One of our Conq., I. xii. 222. The loguently weaker of the pair.
