| 单词 |
ventriloquize |
| 释义 |
ventriloquize, v.|vɛnˈtrɪləkwaɪz|
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
1. intr. To use or practise ventriloquism; to speak or produce sounds in the manner of a ventriloquist; to cast the voice.
1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm I. 297 When the corn-crake..ventriloquises in the corn or grass. 1846Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. I. 148/2 The horses capered and neighed and ventriloquized right and left. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! ii, Leave thy caverned grumblings,..and discourse eloquence from thy central omphalos, like Pythoness ventriloquising. 1879Jefferies Wild Life 219 Some say in like manner that the starling ventriloquizes.
fig.1832Coleridge Table-t. 21 July, I have no admiration for the practice of ventriloquizing through another man's mouth. 1890Spectator 1 Nov., It looks as if the new Radicalism had entered into his soul and were ventriloquising through his organisation.
2. trans. To utter as a ventriloquist.
1865Spectator 14 Jan. 45 It is a falsehood ventriloquizing truth. 1871Farrar Witn. Hist. iv. 131 The little Temple, up which the priests..crept to ventriloquise behind the deceptive statue their lying oracles. 1900Daily News 18 July 2/5 He not only mimics but ventriloquises his imitations.
Hence venˈtriloquizing vbl. n. Also attrib.
1805E. de Acton Nuns of Desert II. 52 Mrs. Mervin's ventriloquising powers, exhibited in the church. |
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