[ad. L. stultiloquentia (Plautus) f. stultiloquus speaking foolishly, f. stult-us foolish + -loquus that speaks.] Foolish or senseless talk, babble, bosh, twaddle.
1721. Bailey, Stultiloquence, foolish talk.
1809. Europ. Mag., LV. 19. This sort of epithet … cannot fail to add … to the stultiloquence of every society.
1893. Swinburne, Stud. Prose & Poetry (1894), 90. The blank and blatant jargon of epic or idyllic stultiloquence.
