单词 | voiceful |
释义 | voicefuladj. Chiefly poetic. 1. a. Endowed with, or as if with, a voice; having voice or power of utterance; (in later use) esp. characterized by loud and unrestrained use of the voice, vocal. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > [adjective] > having voice voiceful1598 vocal1601 tongued1635 voiceda1821 1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Achilles Shield 7 The reuerend Iudges made their sessions, The voycefull Herralds awfull scepters holding, And their graue doomes on eyther side vnfolding. ?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses i. 6 Both washt, and seated close; the voicefull man Fetcht cups of gold, and set by them. 1842 F. W. Faber Styrian Lake 100 And for the voiceful Church and poor mute world Doth he not keep his potent Cross unfurled? 1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 301 Death, not silent or patient, waiting his appointed hour, but voiceful, venomous. 1870 F. W. Farrar Families of Speech i. 11 As they supposed that Song had been learned by man first, and by all voiceful creatures. 1927 Times 2 Mar. 21/1 Some newspaper reports are naturally misleading to many people, as quieter folk who support the Book remain frequently silent when opponents are voiceful. 1991 H. Bevington World & Bo Tree 144 They clamored so much, as shrill and voiceful as the girls in Clare Luce's 1937 play The Women. 2006 Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minnesota) 5 Aug. 2 d Here is Bean on his three biggest pet peeves:... 3. Parents becoming too voiceful at their kids' sporting events. b. Of a natural feature, place, etc.: full of sound or sounds. Chiefly poetic. ΚΠ 1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. iii. 70 To take the kinde ayre of a wistfull morne Neere Tauies voycefull streame. 1818 S. T. Coleridge Fancy in Nubibus 14 That blind Bard, who..Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssee Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea! 1859 G. A. Sala Gaslight & Daylight xxviii. 316 Our green lanes and voiceful woods. 1890 J. G. Whittier At Sundown (1892) 15 The voiceful streets, the plaudit-echoing halls, And prayer and hymn borne heavenward from St. Paul's! 1927 S. Sassoon Heart's Journey xxii Above the voiceful windings of a river An old green slab of simply graven stone Shuns notice. 1949 E. Blunden After Bombing 29 And some have sung though never seen Melodious, voiceful, violet-rippling, blushful Hippocrene. 1976 Titusville (Pa.) Herald 12 Aug. 3/2 Captain John Smith..in the early 1600s visited these unsuspected isles compass'd by the voiceful sea. c. Expressive of something. Now rare. ΚΠ 1847 Ld. Lindsay Sketches Hist. Christian Art II. iv. 260 Yon belfry, morn and even Voiceful of God appeas'd and man forgiven. 1868 Contemp. Rev. 9 76 Blake's poems..run on a sort of parallel of contrast—the one creative, the other voiceful of revolt and self-consciousness. 1902 J. Payne Poet. Wks. II. 248 The silence dolorous Surely is voiceful of the years prolonging Long bliss for thee and us to come. 1920 J. Hebblethwaite Poems 115 Winds blow soft, forgetful of their might, Voiceful of rest. d. Noisy or vocal with the sound of something. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > [adjective] > utterance of vocal sound > expressive of something voiceful1856 1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters III. 202 The mountains were thus voiceful with perpetual rebuke. 1863 E. M. Goulburn Office Holy Communion I. 79 A law..every statute of which..is voiceful with condemnation. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vii. xxvi. 520 He sailed along shores of which every hill and promontory is voiceful with heroic memories. 1908 ‘M. Field’ Wild Honey 88 Thy reedy land Voiceful with birds. 1972 D. K. Roy tr. D. Roy in Hark! His Flute! 101 In the hall a river of music voiceful with dance-ripples runs pearl-bright. 2. Of an opinion, utterance, etc.: spoken; uttered by the voice or voices, esp. loudly or without restraint. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > [adjective] > relating to voice vocal1655 voiceful1821 1821 L. Hunt Indicator No. 75. (1822) II. 177 He has less of the oracular or voiceful part of his art. 1867 W. D. Howells Ital. Journeys 62 In clamorous Italy, whose voiceful uproar strikes to the summits of her guardian Alps. 1876 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth xxxi. 308 Every silent, every voiceful appeal to that which each of us has in him of purest and sweetest. 1918 Evening Gaz. (Xenia, Ohio) 29 July 1/1 Members of a gang which lifted the portrait from the Cullitz home to the tune of voiceful threats. 1960 Newark (Ohio) Advocate & Amer. Tribune 10 May 2/1 Cincinnati Reds manager..charges out to make a rather voiceful point. 2002 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 17 Apr. 13 The voiceful opinions of the Zionist sympathisers of only a few short weeks ago are now silent, understandably so. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [adjective] controversious1548 argumentable1588 argumental1595 warlikea1603 controversary1610 polemic1614 polemical1615 eristical1624 controversal1634 eristic1637 controversial1638 argumentative1647 agonisticala1652 agonistic1656 disputatious1660 controvertistical1707 gladiatorial1813 conversional1861 voiceful1879 challengeful1903 1879 G. Meredith Egoist II. vi. 137 Dr. Middleton assented and entered on the voiceful ground of Greek metres. Derivatives ˈvoicefulness n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > [noun] > quality of having vocality1597 voicefulness1849 1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. vi. 172 That deep sense of voicefulness..which we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity. 1852 A. J. Munby Benoni 111 So hadst thou been to me a nest for all My timid speechless thoughts, which..Had caught expressive voicefulness unknown Before. 1907 Eau Claire (Wisconsin) Sunday Leader 10 Nov. 7/1 Down in Alabama, where voicefulness has ever won popular regard,..a constituency has been found to elect the voiceful P. to congress. 1998 Social Scientist 26 29 There is a certain voicefulness of the past, it is not frozen. It is forever changing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1598 |
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