loquent, a. rare.
(ˈləʊkwənt)
[ad. L. loquent-em, pres. pple. of loquī to speak.]
That speaks.
| 1593 R. Harvey Philad. 101 He would be loquent as Mithridates, that could speake 22 languages. a 1619 M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. xii. §1 (1622) 332 Of things loquent, and silent; of things moueable, and vnmoueable. 1654 H. L'Estrange Reign Chas. I (1655) 135 So rare is it for a man very eloquent, not to be over loquent. 1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways xi. (1890) 99 Redworth would have yielded her the loquent lead. |
Hence ˈloquently adv., in point of talking.
| 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conq. I. xii. 222 The loquently weaker of the pair. |