loqu-, -loquence, -loquent, -loquently, -loquy, -iloquent, -iloquently +

"Don't speak against the sun."

Also translated as, "Don't waste your time arguing the obvious."

When confronted by an important, irrefutable fact, there is no point in arguing about it any further.

Speaking discursively or straying from the point.

1. Speaking to someone else.
2. Making an address to others.

Speaking pompously, in a high-flown, turgid (complicated and difficult to understand) manner: "Nelson's altiloquent speech to the professors was expressed in extremely formal language in an effort to impress them and it resulted in sounding silly because of this attempted sophistication."

Someone who speaks with doubt or with two languages.

Doubtful or ambiguous language.

Similar to the sound produced by blowing or speaking into an amphora (two-handled vase), or other large vessel with a small mouth, as in "amphoric resonance"; a cough, an echo, a voice, etc.: "His amphoriloquy indicated a voice sound that had a hollow, blowing characteristic, which could be heard because of the patient's pulmonary cavity (space in the lung when part of it is removed) as he or she talks or whispers."

1. A preface, or the first place to turn when speaking.
2. A term, which stage players use which is a reference to their cue.

Someone who contradicts.

A contradiction.

Speaking in a flattering or mildly ingratiating way.

Speaking with a stammer or lisp.

1. Speaking briefly or concisely; laconic.
2. Brevity, or shortness, of speech.

Given to concise, or brief, speaking.

A modification of the voice sounds, by which they are intensified and heightened in pitch; observed in auscultation of the chest in certain cases of intro-thoracic disease.