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vociferant, a. and n.|və(ʊ)ˈsɪfərənt|
[ad. L. vōciferant-, vōciferans, pres. pple. of vōciferārī, -āre: see next.]
A. adj. Clamouring, bawling, vociferating.
1609J. Davies (Heref.) Holy Roode Wks. (Grosart) I. 19/2 For, all his Wounds, with voice vociferant, Crie out they can more than supply each want! 1659Gauden Tears Ch. 214 The most vociferant vulgar..do least know what the matter is. 1685H. More Paralip. Prophet. vi. 38 That Themistocles came to Artaxerxes, not to Xerxes,..he proves from a plain narrative, where there is no mention of any vociferant Ecstatical Olbius. 1836Westm. Rev. XXIV. 82 A new race of parsons sprung up, half political leaders, half-fanatical fire-brands..now declaiming in the pulpit, now vociferant in the tavern [etc.]. 1850Browning Christmas Eve iv. 28 My mind was full of the scene I had left, That placid flock, that pastor vociferant. 1863Mrs. Whitney Faith Gartney's Girlh. xiv, She..shook first him and then his frock..and carried him, vociferant, to the door.
B. n. A clamorous or noisy person.
1890Atlantic Monthly May 675/2 Strange as it may appear to earnest but misguided vociferants. |