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aloud, adv.|əˈlaʊd|
Also 4–6 aloude, 6 alowd,
[a prep.1 of manner + loud a. Cf. alow, ahigh.]
1. In a loud voice; with great noise; loudly.
c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 401 The kinges foole is wont to crie aloud. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. vii. 23 Lauhynge al a-loude. c1400Destr. Troy xv. 6251 He..on lowde saide. 1539Bible (‘great’) Gen. xlv. 2 (R.) He wepte alowde. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, v. i. 3 Ring Belles alowd, burne Bonfires. 1603― Meas. for M. ii. iv. 153 Ile tell the world aloud, What man thou art. 1767Fordyce Serm. Yng. Wom. I. vi. 252 One of the Company would often read aloud. 1821Keats Isabel xxxiii, In dreams they groan'd aloud.
b. doubtfully attrib.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xlii. iii, Open thine eares unto my song aloude. 1806W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. II. 137 The only serious poem that is resorted to for aloud reading.
2. fig. (colloq.)
1872Daily News 28 Feb., The stuff, to quote the trenchant expression of an on-looker, ‘stank aloud.’ |