sesquipedalia

· Vigna sesquipedalia: the asparagus or yardlong bean widely grown in Asia mainly for its immature pods.

Chapter 7 1981

Cowpeas (Vigna sinensis, V. unguiculata, V. sesquipedalia)

Chapter 7 1981

* Projicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba: [11660] 1

The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

* Projicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba: [7621] 1

The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

How soberly side by side they solved problems and looked up _sesquipedalia verba_ in big lexicons!

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

O'Connell knew well the use of sound in the vituperation, and having to deal with an ignorant scold, determined to overcome her in volubility, by using all the _sesquipedalia verba_ which occur in Euclid.

Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell Anonymous

Professor Whedon was a Methodist clergyman, lank and angular in form and feature with a "considerable sprinkling of vinegar at times in his ways of expressing himself," but, according to our oldest living graduate, "his commanding presence, imperative logic and _sesquipedalia verba_, always used with mathematical precision, hammered truth into us and clinched it."

The University of Michigan Wilfred Shaw

Thank Heaven, we have not yet come to think that the highest form of wisdom is enshrined in the _sesquipedalia monstra_ of chemical formulae, still less in the extreme abstractions of mathematics.

Nature Mysticism John Edward Mercer 1889

Upon which Dr. Johnson wrote one of his sesquipedalia verba [1102], which was pronounced by the scholars, and he was satisfied.

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

We label him with two or three _sesquipedalia verba_, give his territorial range, describe his notes and his habits of nidification, and fancy we have rendered an account of the bird.

Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877