Eloquence: alternatives and connections

of Affect

Loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserv…

Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.

To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a r…

See Defense.

Alt. of Defence

The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.

Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offe…

To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flow…

Uttered with emphasis; made prominent and impressive by a peculiar stress of voice; laying stress; deserving of stress or emphasis; fo…

The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as,…

Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.

Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.

Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.

aphasia characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and severe impairment of the ability understand spoken or written words

Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib.

Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, a…

A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speec…