copious

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His matter was copious, his voice powerful, and his memory strong; so that there was little chance of his ending his exhortation till the party had reached Stirling, had not his attention been attracted by a pedlar who had joined the march from a cross-road, and who sighed or groaned with great regularity at all fitting pauses of his homily.

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  1. adjective Yielding or containing plenty; affording ample supply: a copious harvest. See Synonyms at plentiful.
  2. adjective Large in quantity; abundant: copious rainfall.
  3. adjective Abounding in matter, thoughts, or words; wordy: "I found our speech copious without order, and energetic without rules” (Samuel Johnson).

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  • You will take heart again about 'Luria which I agree with you, is more diffuse ... that is, less close, than any of your works, not diffuse in any bad sense, but round, copious, and another proof of that wonderful variety of faculty which is so striking in you, and which signalizes itself both in the thought and in the medium of the thought. —  The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 1845-1846
  • His language was copious, his subject “schoolmaster Bishops,” and the services they had rendered to the Church of England. —  The Life of Froude
  • The data for a life of Nathaniel Hawthorne are the reverse of copious, and even if they were abundant they would serve but in a limited measure the purpose of the biographer. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Hawthorne, by Henry James, Junr.
  • It is very copious, and the introductory essay contains some excellent remarks upon the wisdom and wit of Scottish proverbial sayings. —  Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
  • Pitt had refused to be one of the conductors of the impeachment; and his commanding, copious, and sonorous eloquence was wanting to that great muster of various talents. —  The Ontario High School Reader
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  1. Middle English, from Latin cōpiōsus, from cōpia, abundance; see op- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English copious, copyous, from Old French *copios, copieux, modern F. copieux = Spanish Portuguese Italian copioso, from Latin copiosus, plentiful, from copia, plenty: see copy, n.
 

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