monologistn.adj.

a1632 J. Webster & W. Rowley Cure for Cuckold (1661) v. i. sig. H4^v That foul word which the fatal Monologist cannot alter... Cuckow.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. iii. ii. 185 Thus our Monologist, or Self-discoursing Author, in his usual Strain.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Monologist, one that loves to have all the Talk to himself.

1848 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 15 279 A lecturer, in the common sense of the term, he is not; call him rather a public monologist, talking rather to himself than to his audience.

1882 Athenæum No. 2841. 435 When monologist meets monologist mutual admiration rarely results.

1885 Cent. Mag. 29 509 The Autocrat..is always acute,—the liveliest of monologists.

1930 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Ten Creeks Run ii. 35 Racially he was a born conversationalist or monologist: the solitary conditions..and the taciturnity of the Colonials restricted his very life.

1983 R. Narayan Tiger for Malgudi 81 Captain, being used to the company of monologists, sat patiently without fidgeting or interrupting the other's flow of talk.

1858 Sat. Rev. 7 Aug. 133 An indifferent troupe of actors can produce an excitement far beyond that which is caused by the pert song or flippant anecdote of the most accomplished monologist.

1892 Speaker 30 July 141/2 One prominent comedian and monologist of the Comédie Française.

1901 Cosmopolitan Oct. 637/2 Across the stage have paraded long processions of ‘musical mokes’, ‘knock-abouts’ and ‘monologists’.

1926 W. Rogers Autobiogr. (1949) viii. 75 In dozens of newspapers over the United States on the last day of 1922 appeared this notice: The famous cowboy monologist, Will Rogers, has undertaken to write for this paper a weekly article of humorous content.

1990 Dict. National Biogr. 1981–85 98/1 His second chief routine was another burlesque, this time of the narrative monologist,..another one-time prototype of the music-hall boards.

1900 W. Tuckwell Reminisc. Oxf. 67 He retained..the bounteous fund of ever-ready talk, alternating not monologist, seasoned not swamped with allusion, recitation, epigram.