Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dilatory; intended to delay or put off; causing delay; prolix.
- Elastic; easily stretched; apt to yield.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Dilatory; tedious; superfluous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
dilatory ;tedious ;superfluous
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Examples
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The beginning of this reaction is visible as early as 1589 in the words of Warner's preface to _Albion's England_, which display the very affectation they protest against: "onely this error may be thought hatching in our English, that to runne on the letter we often runne from the matter: and being over prodigall in similes we become lesse profitable in sentences and more prolixious to sense."
John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925
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At night he went into the garden to pray, and he prayed prolixious, he spent much time in prayer, how much?
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601
roguewraith commented on the word prolixious
I found this word in "Measure for Measure" in the footnotes it says the definition is time-wasting
February 22, 2007