sesquipedalia

• “Cowpeas (Vigna sinensis, V. unguiculata, V. sesquipedalia)”

  Chapter 7

• “· Vigna sesquipedalia: the asparagus or yardlong bean widely grown in Asia mainly for its immature pods.”

  Chapter 7

• “* Projicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba: [7621] 1”

  The Death of Death in the Death of Christ

• “* Projicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba: [11660] 1”

  The Death of Death in the Death of Christ

• “How soberly side by side they solved problems and looked up _sesquipedalia verba_ in big lexicons!”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873

• “O'Connell knew well the use of sound in the vituperation, and having to deal with an ignorant scold, determined to overcome her in volubility, by using all the _sesquipedalia verba_ which occur in Euclid.”

  Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell

• “Professor Whedon was a Methodist clergyman, lank and angular in form and feature with a "considerable sprinkling of vinegar at times in his ways of expressing himself," but, according to our oldest living graduate, "his commanding presence, imperative logic and _sesquipedalia verba_, always used with mathematical precision, hammered truth into us and clinched it.”

  The University of Michigan

• “Thank Heaven, we have not yet come to think that the highest form of wisdom is enshrined in the _sesquipedalia monstra_ of chemical formulae, still less in the extreme abstractions of mathematics.”

  Nature Mysticism

• “Upon which Dr. Johnson wrote one of his sesquipedalia verba [1102], which was pronounced by the scholars, and he was satisfied.”

  Life of Johnson

• “We label him with two or three _sesquipedalia verba_, give his territorial range, describe his notes and his habits of nidification, and fancy we have rendered an account of the bird.”

  Birds in the Bush

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