grandific (grandifik)

[ lofty speech or expre ion; bombast. The prophet has promised them with such magnificent words and enthusiastic grandiloquence . Dr. H. More, Mystery of Godline , p. 271. He [Van Poffenburgh] gave importance to his station by the grandiloquence of his bulletins, always styling him self Commander-in-chief of the Armies of the New Neth erlands. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 312.