soliloquizev.
/səˈlɪləkwʌɪz/, U.S. /səˈlɪləˌkwaɪz/ 1. intransitive. To engage in soliloquy; to talk to oneself.
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the mind > language > speech > monologue > talk in monologue [verb (intransitive)]
soliloquize1759
to think aloud (also out loud)1789
monologue1825
Hamletize1844
monologuize1870
monologize1890
1759 J. G. Cooper tr. J. B. Gresset Ver-vert ii. 18 He could..at a proper time and place Religiously soliloquise.
1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III xcvi. 56 Leaving my people to proceed alone, While I soliloquize beyond expression.
1858 Baroness Bunsen in A. J. C. Hare Life & Lett. Baroness Bunsen (1879) II. iv. 235 He soliloquises in a manner in which you would tell a story to a child.
1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country ii. 120 Thus, mutely might our friend soliloquize.
2. transitive.
a. To utter in soliloquy.
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the mind > language > speech > monologue > utter in monologue or soliloquy [verb (transitive)]
soliloquize1805
monologue1834
1805 ‘E. de Acton’ Nuns of Desert I. 172 Sometimes he..soliloquised a string of barbarous oaths.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. ix. 65 No scenic individual, with knavish hypocritical views, will take the trouble to soliloquise a scene.
1854 Fraser's Mag. 50 72 Balder soliloquises his ambition.
b. To address or apostrophize in soliloquy.
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the mind > language > speech > monologue > utter in monologue or soliloquy [verb (transitive)] > address in
soliloquize1823
1823 New Monthly Mag. 7 332 When you are soliloquizing the moon.
Derivatives
soˈliloquizer n. one who soliloquizes.
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the mind > language > speech > monologue > [noun] > one who talks in
monologian1625
monologist1711
soliloquizer1802
soliloquist1804
monologuist1853
1802 Edinb. Rev. 1 118 Prosopopœia is more suited to the narrator of such a state, than to the soliloquizer.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Mar. 5/1 One of those..soliloquisers of villainy who are specially favoured by the dramatist.
soˈliloquizing n. and adj.
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the mind > language > speech > monologue > [noun] > act or habit of speaking in
monology1616
soliloquya1668
monologue1668
soliloquizingc1822
soliloquacity1895
the mind > language > speech > monologue > [adjective] > talking in monologues
soliloquizingc1822
soliloquacious1835
soliloquent1892
c1822 T. Campbell Note to Byron's Heaven & Earth iii. 931 Too much tedious soliloquising.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. viii. 86 If the soliloquising Barber ask: ‘What has your Lordship done to earn all this?’
1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne I. xii. 184 In a conversational mood, or, more properly speaking, a soliloquising one.
soˈliloquizingly adv.
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the mind > language > speech > monologue > [adverb]
soliloquizingly1840
1840 New Monthly Mag. 60 321 ‘Comforts?’ said Tim, soliloquizingly.
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