ventriloquistn.

Brit.

/vɛnˈtrɪləkwɪst/, U.S.

/vɛnˈtrɪləkwəst/

Etymology: < ventriloqu- (in ventriloquy n.) + -ist suffix.

a. One who practises, or is expert in, ventriloquy or ventriloquism; spec. in modern use, one who gives public exhibitions of his skill in this art. With early quots. cf. ventriloquism n. 2. The modern application (corresponding to ventriloquism n. 1) appears just before 1800.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > ventriloquist

ventriloquist1656

ventriloquea1680

gastriloquist1785

polyphonist1836

vent1893

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Ventriloquist, one that hath an evil spirit speaking in his belly, or one that by use and practise can speak as it were out of his belly, not moving his lips.

1678 H. More Let. 25 May 32 in J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) Who knows but some of his counterfeit Ventriloquists may prove true ones.

1718 F. Hutchinson Hist. Ess. conc. Witchcraft i. 9 There are also many that can form Words and Voices in their Stomach, which shall seem to come from others rather than the Person that speaks them. Such people are call'd Engastriloques, or Ventriloquists.

1749 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) IX. 7 There was a compact..between the ventriloquist and the exorcist.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 639/2 As the ancient ventriloquists, when exercising their art, seemed generally to speak from their own bellies, the name..was abundantly significant.

1815 Stage I. 176 A ventriloquist at Paris has attracted the attention of the whole metropolis.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xix. 199 And pale slender women with consumptive faces lingered upon the footsteps of ventriloquists and conjurors.

1893 R. Ganthony Pract. Ventriloquism 147 It is curious that Ventriloquists are nearly all English.

figurative.a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 317 The scenes are mock dialogues, in which the poet solus plays the ventriloquist.1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Jan. 1/1 The ‘Ventriloquist of Varzin’, who can pull the strings of three Imperial Chancelleries.attributive.1850 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 2 101 It can hardly be doubted that the Archbishop's miracle was a ventriloquist hoax.

b. Applied to birds or animals. Also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > bird that makes sound > that imitates or appears to be ventriloquist

polyglot1770

ventriloquist1802

1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. x. 195 A tuneful bird is a ventriloquist. The seat of the song is in the breast.

1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 218 The belief that the [corn-]crake is a ventriloquist.

1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Onappo (Braz[il]), a reddish-gray nyctipithecine monkey or teetee (Callithrix discolor). Called also ventriloquist-monkey.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	ventriloquist
释义	ventriloquistn. Brit. /vɛnˈtrɪləkwɪst/, U.S. /vɛnˈtrɪləkwəst/ Etymology: < ventriloqu- (in ventriloquy n.) + -ist suffix. a. One who practises, or is expert in, ventriloquy or ventriloquism; spec. in modern use, one who gives public exhibitions of his skill in this art. With early quots. cf. ventriloquism n. 2. The modern application (corresponding to ventriloquism n. 1) appears just before 1800. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > ventriloquist ventriloquist1656 ventriloquea1680 gastriloquist1785 polyphonist1836 vent1893 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Ventriloquist, one that hath an evil spirit speaking in his belly, or one that by use and practise can speak as it were out of his belly, not moving his lips. 1678 H. More Let. 25 May 32 in J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) Who knows but some of his counterfeit Ventriloquists may prove true ones. 1718 F. Hutchinson Hist. Ess. conc. Witchcraft i. 9 There are also many that can form Words and Voices in their Stomach, which shall seem to come from others rather than the Person that speaks them. Such people are call'd Engastriloques, or Ventriloquists. 1749 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) IX. 7 There was a compact..between the ventriloquist and the exorcist. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 639/2 As the ancient ventriloquists, when exercising their art, seemed generally to speak from their own bellies, the name..was abundantly significant. 1815 Stage I. 176 A ventriloquist at Paris has attracted the attention of the whole metropolis. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xix. 199 And pale slender women with consumptive faces lingered upon the footsteps of ventriloquists and conjurors. 1893 R. Ganthony Pract. Ventriloquism 147 It is curious that Ventriloquists are nearly all English. figurative.a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 317 The scenes are mock dialogues, in which the poet solus plays the ventriloquist.1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Jan. 1/1 The ‘Ventriloquist of Varzin’, who can pull the strings of three Imperial Chancelleries.attributive.1850 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 2 101 It can hardly be doubted that the Archbishop's miracle was a ventriloquist hoax. b. Applied to birds or animals. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > bird that makes sound > that imitates or appears to be ventriloquist polyglot1770 ventriloquist1802 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. x. 195 A tuneful bird is a ventriloquist. The seat of the song is in the breast. 1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 218 The belief that the [corn-]crake is a ventriloquist. 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Onappo (Braz[il]), a reddish-gray nyctipithecine monkey or teetee (Callithrix discolor). Called also ventriloquist-monkey. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1656
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