Do we say elocution or locution

elocution 302 occurrences

" When Hasan delivered his embassy, his capacity and elocution appeared so great to the Emperor, that, desirous to gain him over to his interest by any means, he bribed him at last with the honors of the wazirate, but never returned an answer to Mahmud.

With every advantage of lungs and elocution, the effect is singularly vapid.

"Young Craggs had great vivacity, a happy memory, and flowing elocution, he was brave and generous, and had an appearance of open-heartedness in his manner that gained him a universal good-will, if not a universal esteem.

His person was sufficiently advantageous, he had a ready memory, proper gesture, and just elocution, but then he was unhappy in his voice, which had not power enough to rouse the galleries, or to rant with any success; besides, he was defective in point of assurance, nor could ever enough overcome his natural timidity.

Pity it is, that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution cannot, like those of poetry, be their own record!

While the million are so apt to be transported, when the drum of their ear is so roundly rattled; while they take the life of elocution to lie in the strength of the lungs, it is no wonder the actor, whose end is applause, should be so often tempted, at this easy rate, to excite it.

Without grace or beauty or melody, his mere elocution was sufficient to produce effects which melody and grace and beauty might have sighed for in vain.

Her life was rather a dreary one, as the life of an elocution teacher may well be.

The old Earl called me to him when he had finished, and talked so beautifully to me; he paid me some such grand old-fashioned compliments, and his voice sounds as if he had learnt elocution in his youth.

The Art of Elocution, exemplified in a Simplified Course of Exercises.

Dr. Barber, an Englishman, and a somewhat noted teacher of elocution, having been converted to the phrenological faith, delivered certain magniloquent lectures on the same to the citizens of New Haven, and took pay therefor, after the manner of his sect.

His voice was powerful and resonant, his elocution effective, if not faultless, and his physical energy inexhaustible.

It had left me with that gay complacency of disposition, and irrepressible propensity of elocution, which result from a satisfied appetite, and an undisturbed digestion.

"Kirkham's Elocution, p. 12.

"But what is to be said when presumption pushes itself into the front ranks of elocution, and thoughtless friends undertake to support it?

When mighty winds have swept over sea and land, and the voice of the Ocean is raised, he speaks to the towering cliffs in the deep tones of a long quantity; the rolling billows, as they meet the shore, pronounce the long-drawn syllables of his majestic elocution.

"Kirkham's Elocution, p. 24.

"Kirkham's Elocution, p. iii.

"Kirkham's Elocution, p. 233.

"Kirkham's Elocution, p. 247.

"Kirkham's Elocution, p. iv.

"Kirkham's Elocution, p. 209.

"Kirkham's Elocution, p. 178.

"Kirkham's Elocution, p. 173.

WALKER, John, 'celebrated master of elocution,' iv. 206; dedication to Johnson, iv.

locution 12 occurrences

The usual ornament of an animal's hind quarters is denied them; and were it not for this fact, and also for their difference in colour, the Shaksperean locution, "a rat without a tail," would designate them very properly.

Speech N. speech, faculty of speech; locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation^, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle; effusion.

If, with a surveying instrument, you put in on a piece of ground a lot of stakes, each one of which is exactly the same height above sea levelthat is, run a line of levelsthen make a map showing the locution of the stakes, a line drawn on the map through all the stake positions is a contour and shows the position of all points of that particular height.

It was an odd locution for her to have employed that she was "going out for the day.

loc. conj., locution conjonctive.

[Footnote 110: This is a paraphase of a favorite locution of Homer's heroes, whose characteristic modesty does not, however, permit them to apply it to themselves, as Varro does.

"] [Footnote 175: A French translator might better convey the intention of the pun, contained in the ducere serram of the text, by the locution, une prise de bec.]

If condemnation of this dreadful locution seem needless bear the matter in mind in your reading and you will soon be of a different opinion.

A most absurd locution.

Many good writers, even some devoid of the lexicographers' passion for inclusion and approval, have specifically defended this locution, backing their example by their precept.

The Academy gives the locution in its Dictionary, with the remark: "signifie aussi familièrement, Avoir quelque prétention sur cette personne, sur cette chose, en avoir quelque désir.

In modern usage the mes is omitted in this locution.

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