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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

perissologia

, Gr. [GREEK]; [GREEK] odd, superfluous + [GREEK] discourse.]

Superfluity of words.

[R.]

G. Campbell.

Noun.

[Gr. redundant,and discourse.] Superfluous words; much talk to little purpose. [Little used.]

perissology ‎(countable and uncountable, plural perissologies)

superfluity of words; verbosity; long-windedness
- George Campbell
  The reason assigned for saying koran and not alcoran, is truly curious. Al, say they, is the Arabic article, and signifies the; consequently, if we should say the alcoran, we should fall into a gross perissology. It is just as if we said the the book.