Locute

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To speak; to say; to utter. intransitive, rare, transitive

    "And 'tis strange that Reverend Body shou'd not find out in several Years, that he who cannot Locute will never Prolocute well."

  2. 2
    To utter a meaningful sentence; to perform a locutionary act. intransitive, transitive

    "The translator locutes propositions, but illocutes nothing at all."

Example

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"And 'tis strange that Reverend Body shou'd not find out in several Years, that he who cannot Locute will never Prolocute well."

Etymology

Back-formation from locution. The first sense could also be directly derived from Latin locut-, perfect active participial stem of loquor (“talk, speak”).

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