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vociferate, v.|və(ʊ)ˈsɪfəreɪt|
[f. vōciferāt-, ppl. stem of L. vōciferārī (rarely, -āre), f. vōci-, vox voice + ferre to carry. Cf. F. vociférer, Sp. and Pg. vociferar, It. vociferare.]
1. intr. To cry out loudly; to bawl, to shout.
1623Cockeram i, Vociferate, to bray or crie out. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. ii. 270 You do so insult and vociferate upon it, like one of your bulky Princes [etc.]. 1768Marq. Rockingham in G. Harris Life Ld. Hardwicke (1847) xvi. III. 427 He vociferated beyond even his usual pitch. 1791Cowper Iliad xii. 335 So they vociferating to the Greeks, Stirr'd them to battle. 1824L. M. Hawkins Annaline II. 196 His passion was somewhat exhausted and he ceased to vociferate. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xvii. 202 They were vociferating as if to attract our attention.
2. trans. To utter in a loud voice; to shout out clamorously; to declaim or assert with loud vehemence.
The object may be either the words uttered (a), or a descriptive noun (b).
(a)1748Richardson Clarissa VI. 99 Damn'd, damn'd doings! vociferated the Peer. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xvi, ‘You shall not separate me from my master, though’, vociferated Paulo. 1816Scott Old Mort. xxxi, They vociferated loudly, that those who were not with them were against them. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. vii, He therefore rode along..vociferating occasionally that 'twas ‘desp't rough, and bad for Jerry's foot’. 1871Member for Paris I. 233 ‘You shall apologize,’ vociferated the Bench.
(b)1758Johnson Idler No. 2. ⁋6 The cook warbles her lyrics in the kitchen, and the thrasher vociferates his heroicks in the barn. 1782V. Knox Ess. lxxxi. (1819) II. 127 The ignorant plebeian, though he may vociferate the word Liberty in a riot, knows not how to give it an effectual support. 1802E. Parsons Myst. Visit I. 89 The nursery-maid..loudly vociferated the dreadful accident to the astonished servants. 1848E. Brontë Wuthering Heights ix, He entered, vociferating oaths dreadful to hear. 1860F. Winslow Diseases Brain & Mind iv. 53, I then began to vociferate a number of most incoherent expressions.
3. To drive by means of clamour.
1880Daily Tel. 9 April, It would be worse than disappointing..if Lord Beaconsfield should have been vociferated out of office merely in order to please Montenegro and Bulgaria.
Hence voˈciferated ppl. a.; voˈciferating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1617Fletcher Mad Lover ii. ii, Beef we can bear before us..And tubs of pork; vociferating veals. 1728Pope Dunc. ii. Argt., Then follow the Exercises for the Poets, of tickling, vociferating, diving. 1781Cowper Conversat. 113 Vociferated logic kills me quite. |