honorificabilitudinitatibus

• Contains the longest word in Shakespeare at 27 letters: "honorificabilitudinitatibus" - Act V, Scene 1. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
• He uses the word "honorificabilitudinitatibus," and some of his blunders are very ridiculous, as "ad dunghill, at the fingers' ends, as they say" (act v. —  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
• Like John o'Gaunt his name is dear to him, as dear as the coat and crest he toadied for, on a bend sable a spear or steeled argent, honorificabilitudinitatibus, dearer than his glory of greatest shakescene in the country. —  Ulysses
• In the original the line reads "Bome boon for boon prescian, a little scracht, 'twil serve Perhaps the reader will be enabled better to understand the sneer and the mockery by reading the following couplet A fig for old Priscián, a little scrátcht, 'twil serve A poet súrely need not áll his rúles observe And we still more perfectly understand the purpose of the hexameter form of the reference to Priscian if we scan the line side by side with the "revealed" interpretation of the long word honorificabilitudinitatibus Bome boon | for boon | prescian | a lit tle scratcht | 'twil serve HI LU DI F BACO | NIS NA | TI TUI TI ORBI These plays F Bacon's offspring are preserved for the world This explanation of the real meaning to be derived from the long word honorificabilitudinitatibus seems to be so convincing as scarcely to require further proof. —  Bacon is Shake-Speare
• "revealed" interpretation of the long word honorificabilitudinitatibus. —  Bacon is Shake-Speare

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