'In Later Use Only As a Humorous Pedantry'

I love old words new to me, especially those I’m fairly certain I will never use in print or conversation. English is profligate. Synonyms abound. Shakespeare used some 17,000 different words – about four times the number possessed by a contemporary, educated native speaker. His vocabulary was so bountiful he could afford to use more than 7,000 words only once – more than appear in the King James Bible. The Oxford English Dictionary credits him with introducing almost 3,000 words to the language. Here’s my most recent lode, unearthed in The Quest for Corvo (1934) by A.J. A. Symons, who is describing his subject, Frederick Rolfe, the self-styled Baron Corvo, and his best-known book, Hadrian the Seventh:

“Fr. Rolfe shares his hero’s liking for compound words; and his pages are studded with such inventions or adaptations as ‘tolutiloquence,’ ‘contortuplicate,’  ‘incoronation,’ ‘noncurant.’ ‘occession,’ and ‘digladiator.’”

Not one of them is recognized by my spell-check software. Here are translations, with assistance from the OED:

Tolutiloquence: “talking ‘at a trot’, voluble speech,” with one usage cited, from 1656. It’s slightly more common cousin is tolutation, meaning “trotting; but used by Sir T. Browne, Butler, and others, for ‘ambling’; in later use only as a humorous pedantry.”

Contortuplicate: “twisted back upon itself.” A word that sounds like what it means. Not otherwise used since 1859.

Incoronation: “coronation, crowning.” Used by Malory. A little disappointing, as it’s so similar to the more common spelling.

Noncurant: no listing but it has nothing to do with currants, the dried, raisin-like grapes used to make jelly.

Occession: no listing but cession is defined as “the action of giving way or yielding,” which seems related to our concession.

Digladiator: “a combatant; one who contends or disputes.” Its Roman origin is obvious. Not used since 1803. We didn’t need to be told it is “obsolete or archaic.”

Not a word on Corvo’s list could be used with a straight face, though contortuplicate holds promise, especially when I'm reading the academic papers I’m subjected to every day.