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sibilate, v.|ˈsɪbɪleɪt|
Also 9 sibillate.
[f. ppl. stem of L. sībilāre to hiss, whistle.]
1. intr. To hiss; to utter a hissing sound.
1656Blount Glossogr., Sibilate, to whistle or hiss. 1823Examiner 332/1 The disposition to sibilate became uncontroulable. 1863Bates Nat. Amazons iv. (1864) 71 Its voice is a harsh, grating hiss: it makes the noise when alarmed, all the individuals sibilating as they fly..away.
2. trans.
a. To announce or say with a hissing sound.
1837New Monthly Mag. XLIX. 577 The ‘Goose and Gridiron’ sibillates the joys of supper. 1903K. D. Wiggin Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm xix. 199 ‘How about cookies?’ ‘Do you think it's worth while?’ sibilated Miss Miranda. 1910O. Browning Mem. Sixty Yrs. xx. 318 Two portly gentlemen..turned round towards me, hissed violently and sibilated the word ‘Poet’ thinking, I suppose, that I was Robert.
b. To assail (an actor) with hissing.
1864Daily Tel. 28 Dec. 5/1 Vociferous tragedians who would now be sibilated by a Victoria gallery.
Hence ˈsibilating ppl. a.; ˈsibilatingly adv.
1776Burney Hist. Mus. (1789) II. iv. 309 Why the Spanish should have so many sibillating endings. 1831Fraser's Mag. III. 399 He then proceeds..in a circumlocutory sibillating whisper. 1862Sala Accepted Addr. 190 The pit began to be sibilatingly cat-calling, uproarious. |