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Webster 1913 Edition

Lengthy

Length′y

(-y̆)
,
Adj.
[
Com
par.
Lengthier
(-ĭ-ẽr)
;
sup
erl.
Lengthiest
.]
Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; – said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like.
“Lengthy periods.”
Washington.
“Some lengthy additions.”
Byron.
“These would be details too lengthy.”
Jefferson.
“To cut short lengthy explanations.”
Trench.

Webster 1828 Edition

Lengthy

LENGTH'Y

,
Adj.
Being long or moderately long; not short; not brief; applied mostly to moral subjects, as to discourses, writings, arguments, proceedings, &c.; as a lengthy sermon; a lengthy dissertation; a lengthy detail.
Lengthy period.
No ministerial act in France, in matters of judicial cognizance, is done without a process verbal, in which the facts are stated amidst a great deal of lengthy formality, with a degree of minuteness, highly profitable to the verbalizing officers and to the revenue.
P. S. Murray has sent or will send a double copy of the Bride and Giaour; in the last one, some lengthy additions; pray accept them, according to old customs.
Chalmers' Political Annals, in treating of South Carolina - is by no means as lengthy as Mr. Hewitt's History.

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