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a1325 (?c1300) Northern Passion (Cambr. Gg.1.1) l. 1147 (MED) Þe Ieues..Alle..seiden at a vois: ‘Gef him dom to hang on croiz.’

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. l. 3526 Bes boþe at a voice, in one ȝour wille be mynde to help þe cristen men..ageyn þe oste paen.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 3752 (MED) Duk Gedeon..tawhte hem hou they scholde ascrie Alle in o vois per compaignie.

1534 J. Heywood Play of Loue sig. Bi^v The whole worlde must agree in one voyce I beyng beloued as I nowe dysclose..[that] the hyest pleasure that man may obtayne Is to be a louer beloued agayne.

1550 Abst. Protocols Town Clerks Glasgow (1894) I. 18 We the saidis devyderis..all in ane voce devyidis the said land and tenement as eftir followis.

1604 in Chron. Perth, etc. (Maitland Club) 69 The Session all in one voice finds the said Mr. William's proceedings orderly done.

1798 Edinb. Mag. Sept. 237/2 The Jury..returned a verdict, all in one voice finding that the pannel had been guilty of culpable homicide.

1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 675/1 Up came the Seven young men, who all in one voice returned me thanks for the use of the Runciman.

1944 Marriage & Family Living 6 22/1 We in one voice agree that it is the parents..who should have known better.

2003 G. Merom How Democracies lose Small Wars iv. 98 French governments and politicians told the public, almost in one voice, that Algeria was French.

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 14394 Alle with a voyce[a1450 Lamb. wyþ o voys] sang þei þe letanie.

c1405 (c1380) G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 420 Crist goddes sone..Is verray god..This with o voys we trowen thogh we sterue.

1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. biij/1 Al wyth one voys gaf to hym laude and honour.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xii. 200 Vith ane voce [1489 Adv. woce] all can thai cry—‘Gud king [etc.]’.

a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 3473 With o woyss thai cry al, ‘sir knycht’ [etc.].

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 258 They with one minde and voyce gaue a determinate aunswere.

1670 J. Dryden Tyrannick Love v. i. 66 We with one voice salute you Emperour.

1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra II. lxviii. 333 With one voice, they all condemn you.

1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 82 All the members demanded with one voice who it was who was charged with the crime.

1900 Times 2 Jan. 4/6 They must lay aside all personal feelings, and with one hand and one voice support the cause of the British Empire.

1979 A. Morice Murder in Outl. iv. 30 Eddie and I would speak with one voice on declaring them the runaway winners.

2004 M. W. Summers Party Games ix. 145 With one voice, they decided to run Tammany's mayoral ticket from the Republican booths.

1566 in T. Fowler Hist. Corpus Christi Coll. (1893) 112 Item, he gave voyce to himselfe in the graunte of lease to him selfe, for the which lease he gave no fine at all.

?1624 G. Chapman tr. Βατραχομυομαχια in tr. Crowne Homers Wks. 9 For my part; I giue voice to this aduise; As seeming fittest to direct our deeds.

1639 W. Balcanquhall Large Declar. Tumults Scotl. 314 They can shew neither law nor practice for chusing assessors to the Ruling-Elders, without whose consent they were not to give voice to any thing in the assembly.

1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.7) i. 151 That which can give voice to the Dumb, can much more give loudness to the Vocal.

1642 W. Strode in Kings Maiesties Speech Vniv. & City Oxf. 6 To give voyce to the dumbe Academy.

1861 D. Murdoch Dutch Dominie of Catskills i. xiv. 171 The incarnate fiends who aided them, howling and yelling as if they gave voice to the invisible troops of hell.

1975 Mil. Affairs 39 195/2 Each assumed that military technology should be encouraged, which in effect gave voice to the people from region to region.

2003 S. Neal Miracle of '48 4 The president fervently believed in the Democratic Party's heritage as the party that gave voice to the powerless.

1637 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Elder Brother i. i. sig. B2 I but speake Her thoughts, my Lord, and what her modesty Refuses to give voyce to.

1736 A. Bliss Calumny & Defamation Farther Displayed 37 Here you..give Voice and Accents to your inmost Thoughts.

1788 Helena xliv. 153 At length, almost choaked with rage, he gave voice to the passion which agitated his whole frame.

1885 ‘E. Garrett’ At Any Cost xiv. 255 Tom had been unable to suppress sundry conjectures.., but he had never given them voice.

1928 N. Douglas Old Calabria xxix. 309 F. Münter..gave voice to his fears that Messina had not yet experienced the full measure of her calamities.

2007 Yorks. Evening Post (Nexis) 24 July Mr. Best has actually given voice to what they really think. He has told the truth as they perceive it.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 280 They assembled a good company of them together, and went vp to the Capitoll, and prayed the Tribunes they would staye to take the voyces of the people.

1593 R. Bancroft Suruay Holy Discipline xxvii. 330 A moderator, chosen out of those Ministers, for one meeting onlie,..to collect the voices and to moderat that action.

1659 W. Montagu Shepheard's Paradise ii. 45 Collect the voyces upon the hearing of the pretention.

1734 J. Stacie tr. Abbé de Parthenay Hist. Poland I. i. 98 The Primate proclaimed the Prince of Conti before the Voices were collected.

1837 T. Keightley Secret Societies Middle Ages 254 The great-prior took the voices of those present on the merits of the absent knights; and he who had the most in his favour was declared the electing-prior.

1898 Times 12 Feb. 9/1 The speaker said he had already collected the voices, and it was now too late for the hon. member to intervene.

a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 203 On these occasions he hasn't ‘taken the voices’. He has added up the opinions and listed them on a piece of paper.

2004 L. Prakke & C. Kortmann Constit. Law 15 EU Member States 897 It is now up to the Speaker ‘to collect the voices’, in other words to establish who has won the vote.

1578 T. Cooper Thesaurus (new ed.) at Athenæ The matter beyng put to voyces, which was the most profitable. Neptune was cast by one voyce, and gaue place vnto Minerua.

1585 in Eng. Hist. Rev. Jan. (1914) 111 Th' act..being put to voices..past as an acte with consent of the hole howse.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 859 After this..matter had beene thus..debated on both sides in the Senat, it was at last put to voices.

a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 123 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) When Herveie had made an end of his speech, they put it to voyces, and the voyces went on Herveis side.

1656 W. Sanderson Compl. Hist. Mary & James VI 200 Being put to voyces it was sentenced, That the crimes and accusations mentioned in the summons, were seditious and treasonable.

1831 A. Manning Stories from Hist. Italy 312 The council of Ten..put to voices whether the nephews should be satisfied.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions ii. 6 Such instances and obiections wilbe offered, with whom seeing I am like to encounter, why ought I not at the first to resolue those, which will relent at the voice of reason.

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 3 Be assur'd, Lords and Commons, there can no greater testimony appear, then [sic] when your prudent spirit acknowledges and obeyes the voice of reason from what quarter soever it be heard speaking.

1714 J. Robinson Benefits & Duty Members Christ's Kingdom 9 Delusions so contradictory to the most connate Notions of our Minds, to the general Consent of Mankind, and to the loud Voice of Reason.

1840 Church of Eng. Mag. Sept. 167 The advice of his aged counsellors..was the voice of reason, pointing out the path of duty and justice.

1917 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 72 140 The German people are not so unlike our own people as to be deaf to the voice of reason.

2007 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 17 Oct. A coach who often appears to be the voice of reason in a sport where reason can be in short supply.

1757 S. Foote Author Epil. O! Such a Sustinuto upon B! Ma'am, when she's quite in Voice she'll go to C.

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 29 You know very well..that I am not in voice [for singing] to day.

1830 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 6 Feb. 162 Owing to a cold..I was, as the players call it, not in very good voice.

1868 C. Dickens Let. 11 Oct. (2002) XII. 199 I was in wonderful voice last night, but croak a little this morning.

1883 E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leics. 253 Hounds were in full voice, and several foxes in full flight almost immediately.

1900 Times 23 Jan. 13/2 Though not in perfect voice, she gave an exceedingly dramatic interpretation of ‘O don fatale’.

1964 A. Wetmore et al. Song & Garden Birds N. Amer. 369/2 The Peabody bird is in best voice in his summer home.

1999 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 7 Apr. 5 Town Crier and toastmaster George Butler is back in full voice after a bout of laryngitis left him speechless.

1814 M. Edgeworth Patronage II. xxiii. 339 Some, who were sensible that the company were anxious for their performance, chose to be ‘quite out of voice’, till they had been pressed and flattered into acquiescence.

1884 ‘E. Lyall’ We Two II. x. 223 I am afraid my wife is quite out of voice.

1926 Musical Q. 12 34 A tenor had been out of voice for about one month because of a ‘laryngitis’.

1992 Independent 11 Mar. 24 Was Paolo Kudriavchenko simply out of voice?.. He certainly sounded it.

1837 J. H. Newman Lect. Prophetical Office Church ix. 282 That Ancient Religion, which of old time found voice and attained consistency in Athanasius,..and other primitive Doctors.

1847 Ld. Lindsay Sketches Hist. Christian Art II. i. 26 The new anti-papal Reasoning spirit..found its voice in the philosophy of Macchiavelli.

1881 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. 186 The revival of sacramentalism..found a voice in Keble.

1906 T. Sinton Poetry of Badenoch Introd. p. xxxv There was always plenty of hero-worship, which found voice in song.

1950 A. Ronell in A. R. Manvell & J. Huntley Technique Film Music (1957) iii. 137 His pantomimed thoughts find voice through the inflection of instruments whose colours express Harpo's spirited style.

2003 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 62 322 The myriad ways in which experiences of same-sex love have found voice in the long stretch of subcontinental history.

1892 A. I. Ritchie Rec. Tennyson 9 Tennyson was soon to find his own voice, but meanwhile he began to write like Byron.

1942 College Eng. 3 533 In their books the southern mountaineer has found his own voice for the first time.

1975 Crit. Inq. 1 720 I have already found my own voice, my own style.

2006 Guardian (Nexis) 8 June 32 Although he was influenced by French surrealism,..it was not until the 1960s that he found his voice.