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▪ I. dialogue, n.|ˈdaɪəlɒg|
Forms: 3–7 dialoge, (4 dialoke, -logg, -log), 5–6 dyalogue, 6– dialogue.
[a. F. dialoge (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), mod.F. dialogue, ad. L. dialogus, Gr. διάλογος conversation, dialogue, f. διαλέγεσθαι to speak alternately, converse: see dialect.]
1. a. A conversation carried on between two or more persons; a colloquy, talk together.
(The tendency is to confine it to two persons, perhaps through associating dia- with di-: cf. monologue.)
1401Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 109 To make with the a dialogge, I holde it bot wast. 1509Fisher Fun. Serm. C'tess Richmond Wks. (1876) 289 A dyalogue, that is to saye a comynycacyon betwyxt..Martha, and our sauyour Jhesu. 1599Shakes. Much Ado iii. i. 31 Feare you not my part of the Dialogue. 1749Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvi. ii, A short dialogue..then passed between them. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. ix, Bella had closely attended to this short dialogue.
b. (without pl.) Verbal interchange of thought between two or more persons, conversation.
c1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. (in Palsgr. 1052) By way of dyalogue betwene the lady Mary & her servant Gyles. 1595Shakes. John i. i. 210 In Dialogue of Complement. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxv. 133 To enter into Dispute, and Dialogue with him. 1725Pope Odyss. xv. 532 So passed in pleasing dialogue away The night. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede 87 That is the great advantage of dialogue on horse⁓back; it can be merged any minute into a trot or canter.
c. In Politics, discussion or diplomatic contact between the representatives of two nations, groups, or the like; hence gen., valuable or constructive discussion or communication.
1953Times 13 May, M. Mayer went on to speak of the ‘dialogue’ which was tending to establish itself between east and west. 1961L. Mumford City in History vi. 181 He would have turned the urban dialogue into the sterile monologue of totalitarian power. 1962Listener 29 Nov. 896/2 The Hungarian Communist party congress was another sounding-board for the increasingly acrimonious but still largely oblique dialogue between Peking and Moscow. 1963Ibid. 31 Jan. 191/2 The essential working basis within the Community is provided by the ‘dialogue’ between the Commission and the Ministers. 1966Rep. Comm. Inquiry Univ. Oxf. I. iv. 264 We would expect a continuing dialogue between the Hebdomadal Council and the Council of the Colleges on the working of Oxford's part in the Universities Central Council on Admissions. 1970Guardian 25 Sept. 3/2 The new society, based on dialogue between all sections of society. 1971Times 27 Feb. 13/5 May I comment on Professor Rahner's plea..for a strengthening of dialogue between religious believers and non-believers?
d. dialogue of the deaf [tr. F. dialogue de sourds], a discussion, meeting, etc., in which neither side understands or makes allowance for the point of view of the other.
1970New Yorker 17 Oct. 171/1 This lack of understanding..has made the Paris talks a dialogue of the deaf for many months. 1974Times 15 Feb. 14 Better communication is no panacea for every industrial dispute... But English reserve does seem to lead, all too often, to a muted dialogue of the deaf. 1979H. Kissinger White House Years xxi. 880 The Nixon-Gandhi conversation thus turned into a classic dialogue of the deaf. 1980Ghanaian Times 23 Jan. 4 The PFP are conducting a dialogue of the deaf among themselves. 1985Financial Times 10 July 4/1 The talks were little more than a dialogue of the deaf and broke down essentially over the vexed issue of sovereignty over the islands.
2. a. A literary work in the form of a conversation between two or more persons.
a1225Ancr. R. 76 Þis beoð sein Gregories wordes, in his dialoge. c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 1157 Danyel in his dialokez devysed sum tyme. 1493Dives & Paup., Here endith a..dyalogue of Diues & pauper. a1531Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 35 A Dyalog betwixt the gentylman and the plowman. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 895 Wil you heare the Dialogue that the two Learned men haue compiled, in praise of the Owle and the Cuckow? 1751Johnson Rambler No. 156 ⁋7 Tragedy was a Monody..improved afterwards into a dialogue by the addition of another speaker. 1838Thirlwall Greece IV. 275 Plato, in one of his dialogues, introduces Anytus as vehemently offended with Socrates. 1882Temperance Mirr. Mar. 63 Uncle Job's Theory, A Dialogue [between 5 persons].
b. (without pl.) Literary composition of this nature; the conversation written for and spoken by actors on the stage; hence, in recent use, style of dramatic conversation or writing.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xi. (Arb.) 41 Others who..by maner of Dialogue, vttered the priuate and familiar talke of..shepheards, heywards and such like. 1656Stanley Hist. Philos. v. (1701) 174/2 The Writings of Plato are by way of Dialogue. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Smith Wks. II. 468 The diction..is too luxuriant and splendid for dialogue. 1829Lytton Disowned 98 Your book is very clever, but it wants dialogue. 1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. I. 283 The plots are generally interesting; the dialogue lively. 1880Grove Dict. Mus. II. 531/1 [In Opéra comique] the dénouement is happy, and the Dialogue spoken.
†3. Such a composition set to music for two or more voices. Obs.
1653J. Playford (title), Select Musical Ayres and Dialogues. 1657J. Gamble (title), Ayres and Dialogues to be sung to the Theorbo-Lute or Bass Viol. 1659― (title) (in Grove Dict. Mus. I. 580) Ayres and Dialogues for One, Two, and Three Voices.
4. attrib. and Comb., as dialogue-author, dialogue-novel, dialogue-piece, dialogue-writer; dialogue-wise adv., in the form of a dialogue.
1561Veron (title), The Hvntynge of Purgatorye to Death, made Dialogewyse. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 19* Explained Dialogue wise, betwixt the Authour and a Military Surgeon. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. 317 The form or manner of our dialogue-author. 1732Fielding Covent Gard. Trag. Prolegom., A Tragedy is a thing of five acts, written dialoguewise. 1768Foote Devil on 2 Sticks iii. Wks. 1799 II. 280 A kind of circulating library, for the vending of dialogue novels. 1783Hist. Miss Baltimores I. 211, I will write it dialogue fashion. 1861J. M. Neale in Lit. Churchman VII. 375/1 It is a poem written dialoguewise.
Add:[4.] dialogue box Computing, a window produced by a system to elicit a response by the user, such as the choice of an option.
1984Electronics 26 Jan. 149/2 Toolkit/32 is a generic application that shares the features of Lisa's user interface, including windows, menus, scrolling, printing, *dialog boxes, mouse, graphics, and cut-and-paste integration. 1992Personal Computer World Mar. 255/2 The typestyle and point size are specified when text is typed into the text dialogue box.
▪ II. dialogue, v.|ˈdaɪəlɒg|
[f. prec. n.; cf. F. dialoguer (1717 in Hatz.-Darm).]
Hence also ˈdialogued ppl. a., ˈdialoguing vbl. n.
1. intr. To hold a dialogue or conversation.
1607Shakes. Timon ii. ii. 52 Var. How dost Foole? Ape. Dost Dialogue with thy shadow? 1685Trial of H. Cornish, etc., 28 You must not stand to Dialogue between one another. 1741Richardson Pamela II. 45 Thus foolishly dialogued I with my Heart. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. (1882) 286 Those puppet-heroines for whom the showman contrives to dialogue without any skill in ventriloquism. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. I. iv. v. 426 Much semi-articulate questioning and dialoguing with Dame de Roucoulles.
b. transf. and fig.
1628Earle Microcosm., Tobacco-seller (Arb.) 59 Where men dialogue with their noses, and their communication is smoak. 1892Sat. Rev. 18 June 709/2 With oboe obbligato dialoguing now with sopranos, now with tenors.
†2. trans. To converse with. Obs.
1699F. Bugg Quakerism Exposed 9 To dialogue the Bishops, and call them Monsters. Ibid. 27 The Quakers dialogu'd the Bishops.
3. To express in the form of a dialogue; to furnish with dialogue.
1597Shakes. Lover's Compl. 132 And dialogu'd for him what he would say. 1781F. Burney Diary May, Our conference grew very grave..I have not time to dialogue it. 1885Academy 16 May 356 A tale full of human interest, brightly dialogued. 1887Contemp. Rev. May 717 The prodigious skill of his dialogued argumentation. |