grandiloquent (grandilokwent)

[= Sp. grandilocuente It. grandiloquente, a lofty style; bombastic; pompous. On March 2, 1770, there was a scuffle at a rope-walk between some soldiers and the rope makers, and on the night of the 5th there occurred the tragedy which, in the somewhat grandiloquent phrase of John Adams, "laid the foundation of American Independence." Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., xii.