Aeolistic

aeolistic English Alternative forms en aeolistic Etymology Coined by Jonathan Swift from Aeolus, the Greek god of wind. Adjective Pertaining to superfluous rhetorical flourishes; long-winded; bombastic. en The importance of lying Arnold M. Ludwig 1965 121 The propagandists, advertisers, diplomats, lawyers, politicians, and academicians rank high in the Aeolistic hierarchy, and their distorted and empty pronouncements currently play an important role in determining and forming our system of values and beliefs. en American Literary Scholarship James Leslie Woodress 1972 181 This makes the narrator intentionally complex: "The Aeolistic narrator is a historian whose work involves, as an allegory, a satiric attack on political Aeolism and includes, as a casebook of bombast, a similar attack on Aeolistic historians..." en On Humor Aeolism in Knickerbocker's A History of New York 1992 David Durant Even his letters, on the few occasions when he has recourse to such devices, are free of Aeolistic flourishes: "neither couched in bad Latin, nor yet graced by rhetorical tropes" (p. 252) Anagrams en aceiilost socialite en eponyms