a. Obs. [f. L. fācundia (see FACUND sb.) + -OUS. Cf. OF. facondieux.] Of persons: Gifted with fluent speech; eloquent, glib. Of speech: Copious, fluent.

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1430.  Lydgate, Chronicle of Troy, II. xv.

        Discrete and hardy and wonder vertuous,
And of speche ryght facundious.

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1503.  Hawes, The Example of Virtue, Prologe, 4.

        O prudent Gower in langage pure
Without corrupcyon moost facundyous.

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1534.  Whitinton, The Thre Bookes of Tullyes Offyces, II. (1540), 102. The crafte of eloquence … [is] more facundyous.

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1606.  Warner, Alb. Eng., 408. Our facundious Fooles.

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1656–81.  in Blount, Glossogr.

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1721–66.  in Bailey.

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  Hence † Facundiously adv., eloquently. Obs.

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1509.  Hawes, The Pastime of Pleasure, 37.

        Yet Elocusion with the powre of Mercury,
The mater exorneth right well facundyously.

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1624.  Heywood, Gunaik., II. 75. Eloquentlie to speake, and facundiouslie to delate of that thing.

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