dilating &c v.; verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum
[Lat.]; flow of words &c (loquacity) 584; looseness.
Polylogy†, tautology, battology†, perissology†; pleonasm,
exuberance, redundancy; thrice-told tale; prolixity; circumlocution,
ambages†; periphrase†, periphrasis; roundabout phrases; episode;
expletive; pennya-lining; richness &c 577.
V. be diffuse &c adj.; run out on, descant, expatiate, enlarge, dilate,
amplify, expand, inflate; launch out, branch out; rant.
maunder, prose; harp upon &c (repeat) 104; dwell on, insist upon.
digress, ramble, battre la campagne [Fr.], beat about the bush,
perorate, spin a long yarn, protract; spin out, swell out, draw out;
battologize†.
Adj. diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent†, copious,
exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome†, long-winded, longspun†, long
drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering;
circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious†, roundabout; digressive;
discursive, excursive; loose; rambling episodic; flatulent, frothy.
Adv. diffusely &c adj.; at large, in extenso [Lat.]; about it and about
it.