[ad. L. stultiloquium, f. stultiloqu-us: see STULTILOQUENCE.]. A speaking foolishly, a foolish babbling.
1653. Jer. Taylor, Serm. Golden-Grove, Winter, xxiii. 301. What they call facetiousnesse and pleasant wit, is indeed to all wise persons a meer Stultiloquy, or talking like a foole.
1826. Examiner, 190/1. A sort of unique stultiloquy governs some of the public deliberations of the owners and occupiers of land.
1867. De Morgan, in Athenæum, 21 Dec., 852/3. Such a self-destructive congeries of stultiloquies.
