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Another part of surplusage is called _Macrologia_, or long language, when we vse large clauses or sentences more than is requisite to the matter: it is also named by the Greeks _Perissologia_, as he that said, the
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
manilamac commented on the word Perissologia
Perissologia is a rather prolix word for prolix.
August 20, 2009