splendiloquent

Blend of splendid +‎ eloquent, probably modelled after grandiloquent and magniloquent. First attested in 1848..

splendiloquent (comparative more splendiloquent, superlative most splendiloquent)

1. Splendid.
   • 1848 May, Portfire (pseudonym), “Shots from an Old Six-Pounder, No. VII”, in United Service Magazine‎, page 93:

     After a long absence, D—— returned with a still longer face, and, after some hesitation, informed us that the whole of our baggage, including S——'s splendiloquent Scheidam, on whose restorative powers we had so much reckoned, was lost : so that we were obliged to content ourselves, after all, with the ration-biscuit D—— carried in his haversack, and the water we had in our canteens.

   • 1959, William Gibson, The Miracle Worker, Simon and Schuster, published 2002, →ISBN, act I, page 21:

     ANNIE: Oh, my eyes feel hundreds of per cent better already, and pretty, why, do you know how I look in them? Spendiloquent. Like a race horse!

   • 2001 November 3, Zenith Nadir, “Re: ok, you know who i AM friends with?”, in alt.fan.kieran-snyder‎ (Usenet):

     I saw her new doo^[sic] at Fergie's yesternight and it was splendiloquent.

2. Splendidly eloquent.
   • a. 1971, Sydney Bernard Smith, “Invocation”, in The Book of Shannow, Lulu.com, published 2007, →ISBN, page 10:

     Aid me now and forever Ye Juxtapositional Muses!
     And especially Tusa, splendiloquent Dinneen!
     hero of the fortuitous, commander of the unlikely,
     first citizen of the joyous lexical state!

   • 2006, Nigel J. Jamieson, “The Ubiquitous Book Review”, in Law & Critique‎, volume 17, number 2, page 218:

     Tirelessly swimming through de Quincy’s ‘department of impassioned prose,’ either in splendiloquent support of some new work or in dismissal of its shortcomings, is vouchsafed to few reviewers.