VENTRILOQUISTIC. 112 VENTURE. are mock dialogues in which the poet solu& playii the ventriloquist. 1885 Pail Mail G. 10 Jan. i/x The 'Ventriloqui:>t of Varzin , who can pull the strings of three Imperial Chancelleries. attrib. 1850 X.^Q. Ser. i. II. 101 It can hardly be doubted that the .Archbishop's miracle was a ventriloquist hoax. b. Applied to birds or animals. Also attrib. 180a Paley Nat. TheoL x. § 5 .\ tuneful bird is a ventriloquist. The seat of the song is in the breast. 1879 Jefkeries Wild Life 218 The belief that the [corn-)crake is a ventriloqubt. 1895 Funk's Stand. Diet., Onappo (Braz[il]), a reddish-gray nyctipithecine monkey or teetee (Callithrix discolor). Called also veHtriloquiU-mo$tkey, Ventriloc^uistic prec. -h -ic] (ventril()'kwi'stik), a, [f. 1. Using or practising ventriloquism. In first quot. used to translate Gr. fy^Awrroyoarwp, which ' has also Men rendered by ventrilinguist '. 1830 tr. Aristophanes, Birds 1651 At PhanacUve a yi!- Unous ventriloquistic race,.. and from these same ventriloqui>tic PhUippi in Attica the tongue is severed in twain. 1851 G. S. Faber Many Mansions 79 Hence the Seventy scruple not to express their sense of the hebrcw Baalath Ob, by rendering it a Ventriloquistic Woman. 2. 01 or pertaining to ventriloquism or ventriloquists ; ventriloquial. 1853 F. O. MoBRis Brit. Birds llh 182 This ventriloquistic power is certainly very remarkable. 1873 B. Harte Fiddletown 32 He even uttered a short ventriloquistic laugh without moving his mouth. 1885 H. O. Forbes JVai. IVand. E. Arch. 72 Its deep and ventriloquistic voice. Ventriloquize (ventri'Ukwaiz), prec +-ii£.'\ V, [f, as 1. mlr. To use or practise ventriloquism ; to speak or produce sounds in the manner of a ventri- loquist ; to cast the voice. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm I. 297 When the corn-crake ..ventriloquises in the corn or grass. 1846 Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. I. 148/2 The horses capered and neighed and ventriloquized right and left. 1855 Kingsley Westiu. Ho! ii. Leave thy caverned grumblings, . . and discourse eloquence from thy central omphalos, like Pythoness ventriloquising. 1879 Jekfkries ll-'ild Life 219 Some say in like manner that the starling ventriloquizes. /ig, x83a CoLEKiDCE Table-t. 21 July, I have no admira. tion for the practice of ventriloquizing through another man's mouth. 1890 Spectator 1 Nov., It looks as if the new Radicalism had entered into his soul and were ventriloquising through his organisation. 2. trans. To utter as a ventriloquist. 1865 Spectator 14 Jan. 45 It is a falsehood ventriloquizing truth. 1871 Farrar Witn, Hist. iv. 131 The little Temple, up which the priests.. crept to ventriloquise behind the deceptive statue their lying oracles. 1900 Dail^ Netvs 18 July z/5 He not only mimics but ventriloquises his imitations. Hence Ventri'loquizing vbL sb. Also aUrib. 1805 Eugenia de Acton Nuns 0/ Desert II. 52 Mrs. Mervin's ventriloquising powers, exhibited in the church. VentriloqaOTLS (ventri-Ukwas), a. [f. L. venlriloqu-tts (see next) -l- -ous.] 1. Of persons : = Ventriloquistic a. i. 1713 Derham Fhys.'Tkeol. iv. vii. (1^27) 149 note^ In the same Tract, Chap. 6 is this Observation of Ventriloquous Persons. 1737 BvROM Rem. (1857) 116 There came the ventriloquous fellow, who imitated a friend's voice out of his moutn. 177S in Ash, and in later Diets. 2. Produced by or as by ventriloquy ; ventriloquial. 1768 G. White Selborne xvi, In breeding-time, snipes play over the moors, piping and humming... Is not their hum ventriloquous, like that of the turkey? 1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 738 The harsh ventriloquous cry of the corncraik amongst the grass. 1880 Caui-e Grandissimes (1898) 200 The dismal ventriloquous note of the rain-crow. Obs, Usu. in pi. ventrilo- II Veutri'loqnus. qui. [L., f. venlri', venter belly -^ loqui to speak, after Gr. iyyanTpifi.v$os. Cf. Ventriloque.] A ventriloquist (esp. in the original sense). The fem. ventrilogua (pi. -loqux) is employed by R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. (1584) vii. i. 126 and xiii. 150. X644D1GBV A^rt/. ^tf^iejxxviii. §2. 251 They that are called ventriloqui, do persuade ignorant people that the Diuell .speaketh from within them deepe in their belly, 1667 Fkil. Trans. II. 603 How by a peculiar use of the Epiglottis, one may come to speak inwardly, as do the Ventriloqui. 1706 Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) I. 306 Two or three pretty stories . -of Ventriloqui, or those that speak in their bellies. 1748 Hartley Observ. Man 1. ii. § 5. 228 We may see how Ventriloqui, or Persons that speak in their Throats, without moving their Lips, impose upon the Audience. 176a Ann. Reg. 1. 143/2 The known faculty many people called Kf/«/r/loqui have had of uttering strange noises [etc-]. VentrilOCLUy (venlri-Ukwi). [ad. med. or early mod.L, ventriloqui-utn (lUvenlriloquio ^ Sp., Fg. ventriloquia^ F. ventriloquic)^ f. L. vcntriloquus : see prec] 1. « Vextriloquism (in both senses). 1584 R. Scot Discov. WitcJicr. vii. i. (1886) 101 A wench, practising hir diabolical] witchcraftand ventriloquie An. 1574. 2IS4J Fuller Holy 4- Prof. St. u, ix. 83 Some have questioned ventriloquie, when men strangely speak out of their bellies, whether it can be done lawfully or no. a z68o Glan. viLL Sadducismus u. (1684) 64 For Ventriloquy, or speaking from the bottom of the Belly, 'tis a thing, .as strange.. as anything in Witchcraft 1775 in Ash. 18x3 Examiner ^-^S His excellent imitations of ventriloquy, 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI, 248/1 The lips and jaws being always somewhat open during ventriloquy, a slight labial movement remains unnoticed. 1889 MacColl Mr. Stranger's Sealed Packet XXX, Vou would have put it all down to ventriloquy and imposture. % 2. (See quot.) Obsr^ 16*3 CocKEKAM I, Ventriloquie^ diuination by the inwards of beasts. Ventrinei «. rare"^, [f. L, ventr-, venter belly + -INK J.] Of or pertaining to the abdomen. a 1859 De Quincev Posth. Wks. (i8gi) 1. 235 note. Prompted by a principle that sank him to the level of the brutes, viz., acquiescing in total ventrine improvidence. t Ventrio*Se,rt. Obs.rare, \a.di.\^.veHtrids-uSy f. ventri-f venter belly.] a, Bot. — Ventricose a. I a. b. * GorbcUied ' (1727 in Bailey, vol. II). 1707 Sloane yrt/«a/ca(i725)ll. 60 Pods.. having here and there eminences over the peas within, or being ventriose. ibid. 59 Smooth ventriose pods. Ventripotent (ventri-p^^tcnt), a. [a. Y.ventripotent (Kabelais), f. L. ventri-^ venter belly + potent-^ potens powerful, etc.] 1. Having a large abdomen ; big-bellied. 1611 CoTCR., VetJripotent, ventripotent,big-paunch, bellieable, huge-guts. [Hence in Blount.] 1892 Harper's Mag. Sept. 504/2 His mind is obviously not of the finest fibre, nor his massive and ventripotent person either. 1905 Fitzmaurice-Kellv Cer-i'antes in Eng. 5 The short, ventripotent rustic [ = Sancho Panza]. 2. Having great capacity of stomach gluttonous. ; 1823 New Monthly Mag. VII. 115 These ventripotent melodists called up from the Ked Sea of my port and claret all their buried swells, shakes, and cadences. 1837 Blachw. Mag. XLII. 425 The ventripotent vermin \sc. fleas] were in the midst of their meal, 1863 Ld, Lennox Biogr. Reminiic. I. 303 Louis des huitres, as the ventripotent monarch was called. Hence Ventripoteiitial a. nonce-word, 1824 New Monthly Mag. XI, 313 A ventri -potential citizen, into whose Mediterranean mouth good things are perpetually flowing. Ventre- (ve-ntr^?), comb, form, on Gr. models, of Venter 1, occurring in various terms (chiefly Anat* and Stirg.\ as ventro-a'xial a,, of or pertaining to the ventral and axial portions of the human trunk; ventro-doTsal a., of sections or lines of direction : extending from venter to back; hence ventro-dorsally 2Ay.\ ventro-i'nguinal a., of or jDcrtaining to the abdominal cavity and the inguinal canal ; ventro-la'teral a.^ of or belonging to the ventral and lateral sides of the body; Yv^ncQ ventro-Iaterally^dw.', ventro-mo'aal, -me'sial adjs.^ of or pertaining to, situated at or on, the ventrimeson; ve:ntronudibra*neliiate a. [cf. NuDiBUANCHiATE £Z.], characterized by having naked gills depending from the ventral region ; vehtro'podal a, [cf. Podal «.], walking with the venter or breast touching the ground ; ventroposte*rior(7., situated on, pertaining to, the under and hinder part of an organ, etc. ; ventro'tomy, the operation of opening the abdomen by incision ; abdominal section. (Cf. Ventui-.) Various other terms, as ventrocystorrapky, -fixation, -scopy, -suspension, etc., appear in recent Diets, or special works. 1902 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 10) XXV. 399/1 These muscles may be divided into two series— those of the trunk ("ventroaxial), and those of the limb (appendicular). 1895 Funk's Stand. Die'. S.V., *Ventro-dorsal. x888 Eticycl. Brit, XXIII. 613/1 When the heart contracts *ventro-dorsally. 1882 Wildeh & Gage Anat. Technol. 28 *Ventroinguinal. 1835-6 Owen in Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 522/1 *Ventro-lateral cartilages of the mantle. 1883MARTIN & Moale Verteb. Dissect. 141 The ventro-Iateral aspect of the trachea. 1888 Howes & Scott Elem. Biol. (ed. 2) 95 Slitting open the body-wall "ventrolaterally. 1882 Wilder & Gage Anat. Technol. 36 The line . . might be called dorso-lateral instead of dorso-sinistral; or it might be called *ventro-mesal. 1872 Humphry Myology 8 The *ventro- mesial position and relations of the pelvic bones. a _ x^-^ Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 289/2 The naked branchial fringes . . indicate the In/ero or *Ventronudibranchiate Order [of molluscs]. 1898 Shufeldt in Ibis Jan. 48 Audubon . .gave them [grebes] both the erect attitudes,as well as, what may be termed, the *ventropodal ones. 1903 Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. Nov. 62 (Cent. Suppi.), I'he *ventro-posterior Hinit of the proton. 1887 H. A. Reeves in Brit, Med. Jrnl. 12 March 593 There is much need for a single and simple word to express the operation of opening the abdominal cavity, for whatever purpose. . . I would therefore suggest the use of an etymologically hybrid word, namely, * *ventrotomy *. Ventro'se, a. rare~°, [ad. late L. ventrds-us, f. venter belly.] (See quot. and Ventricose a.) j8S9 Mavne Expos. Lex., Ventrosus^ having a belly, or swellings like the belly ; ventrose. Hence Ventre *sity, corpulence. Diet.) (1891 in Cent, Ventr(o)us, -ly, obs. ff. Ventdrous, -ly. tVe'ntuous,^. Obs. Also 5 ventuos, [Irreg. f. L. ventu-s wind -(--ous.] Windy, flatulent. Some other instances of the word in the same work (v. Ix. and xvn. clxxxvi.)are due to mistranslation of the Latin text. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P. R. xix. liv. (1495) 89s Rawe hony not well clarefyed is ryght ventuous and bredyth curlynge and swellyng in the wombe. t Ve'ntnrable, «• Obs. rare. [f. Venture z/.] a. Adventurable, attemptable. b. Venturous, hazardous. 1576 Fleming Panopl. Epist. 390 That whiche is harde and skarse venturable. 1597 J. Pavne Royal Exch. 34 Whose valure and venturable servyLeMorte Art/i. z'&ii Launcelot saw ther was no socoure, nedysse muste he hys venture abyde. fb. -4 venture's stroke, one delivered at a venture ; a chance stroke. Obs.—^ £:x45o in Ret. Ant. I. 308 Come in with a rake in every a syde, An hole rownde and an halfe, ^j-ath so hit betyde, iiij. quarters and a lownd and a ventures stroke wyth. C. At a venture, at random, by chance, without due consideration or thought; = Adventure 3b. 1509 Hawes Fast. Fleas, iv. vii, Howe at a venture, and by sodayne chaunce He met with Fame, by fortunes purueyaunce. c 1590 Sir T. More iv. i. 157 Then, good Incnnation, beginne at a venter. i6ox Fulbecke ist Ft. Farall. 15 Hut if the things aforesaid be not.. weighed or marked, but be sold at a venture. 1611 Bible i Kings xxii. 34 A certaine man drew a bow at a venture. 1696 Whiston Th. Earth II. (1722) 215 *Tis possible that I may several times by guess, or at a venture, hit upon it. 17*0 De Foe Capt. Singleton xv. (1840) 256 They should rather ftre at a venture. 1780 CowPER Let, 2 June, I never in my life began a letter more at a venture than the present. 1841 Lane Arab. Nts. (Rtldg.) 77 As I no longer knew where I was, I continued swimming at a venture. 1886 Mrs. Lvnn Linton Paston Carew xvi, * And your mother was an Indian,' said Lady Jane, drawing her bow at a venture. 1 2, Danger, jeopardy, hazard, or peril ; the chance or risk of incurring harm or loss. Obs. a. 1550 Crowley Last Trumpet 655 Thy lyfe thou must put in venture For Christes congregation. 1634 Sir T. Her* BERT Trav. 79 [He pressed] on the Persians, that they desired to come off without more venture, and so.. retired home. 1677 Varranjon Eng. Dnprov. 156 By this way the Seed was put into the Husbandmans hand, and no venture to him. C1705 Pope ^Jan. ^ May iS2Thc venture's greater, I presume to say, To give your person, than your goods away. i8a3 Scott Quentin D. xxviii, 'Nevertheless,' said the King, *it is not our pleasure so to put thee in venture *. ^' '599 B* JoNSON Cynthia's Rev. i. lii. One that hath now made the sixth returne upon venter. 1623 T. Scot Highw. God 75 The venter and hazard is the buyers and the sellers, but the certaine gaine fals betwixt both to the usurer. 1640 Habington Edw. IV, 90 When she perceived the Lords earnest to have the Prince present in the battle, shee violently opposed. In respect of his youth, want of experience, and the so mighty venter. t b. To run the venture of, to run the risk of. 172a De Foe Col. Jack (1840) i6g To run the venture of tlie gallows rather than the venture of starving. 1729 Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. 164 [He] had rather forego his known right than run the venture of doing even a hard thing. 3. An act or occasion of trying one's chance or fortune ; a course or proceeding the outcome of which is uncertain, but which is attended by the an enterprise, operation, or risk of danger or loss ; undertaking of a hazardous or risky nature. a 1566 R. Edwards Damon iff Fithias Ej b, Gronno. Wilt thou venter thy life for a man so fondly? Fithias. It is no venter, my friende is iust, for whom I desire to die. *( 1625 Fletcher Noble Gent. iv. i, I'll be your scholar, I cannot lose much by the venture sure. 1665 Boyle Occas. Kefi, Ded. Let. A 4 Yotu" Charity.. made you so resolute and pressing to have me run a Venture, which you are pkas'd to think but a very Small One. x6B6 tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 181 The rest, which they durst not remove, for fear of endangering all at one venture. 1819 Shellev Peter Bell 3rd vii.xxiii. No bailiff dared. . to enter ; A mai\ would bear upon his face. For fifteen months,. .The yawn of such a venture. 1856 Kane Arci. Expl. II. v. 60, I made the desperate venture of sending off my . . huntsman . . to find the Esquimaux. x868 Freeman Norm. Conq. (1877) II. 326 He deemed it better not to make his great venture till he bad strengthened his force. tran^f. 1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. I. 7 A kind of probationary venture of the will. t b. In the phrases to put in or to a (or the) venture, to hazard or risk. Obs. 1638 R. Baker tr. .Sa/zac'j Lett.{\o\. II) 18, 1 have put my selfe to the venture to goe as far as Gascogny to seek you out. 1639 S. Du Verger x.r. Camus' Admir. Events loi He resolved to put all in a venture. 164a D. Rogers Naaman J46 How loath would I bee.. to have the matter put to a venture, c 1670 M. Bkuce Gd. Neius in Evil Times, elc. (1708) 33 This Love of Christ makes us put all to the venture ; what loss had thir poor Women that put their All to the venture for him? 1700 S. L. tr. Fryke's Vopf. E. Ind. 323 As soon as they have paid their Debts, what is left they put to the venture. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), To Adventure, to venture, or put to the Venture, to hazard, t c. To give the venture, to make the attempt. 1599 Hakluyt Voy. II. n. 58 That although the people were blacke and naked, yet they were ciuiU : so that nee would needs giue the venter without the consent of the rest to go without weapon. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 194 'I'hen Patroclus gave the venture. 165* Hevlin Cosmogr. 28 However I will give the venture, and make as. .profitable a discovery, as the limes enable me, of the whole World. d. An adventure or remarkable feat, incident, etc. rare. 1810 Scott Lady of L. ni. 1, The race of yore, Who. .told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea. 1844 Kinglake Eoihen vi, The ventures of the Greeks are surrounded by such a multitude of imagined dangers, that [etc]. 4. An enterprise of a business nature in which there is considerable risk of loss as well as chance of gain ; a commercial speculation.
VENTURE. 113 VENTURE. 1584-7 Greene Carde 0/ Fancie Wks. (Grosart) IV. 145 Your venter was much, but your gaines such, as. .you are like to Hue by the losse. 1596 Shaks. Merch. V. in. iL 270 Hath all his ventures faild, what not one hit? 1605 B. JoNSoN Volporui. ii, If you died today, And gaue him all, .. What large returne would come of ali his venters. 1610 — Alck. n. ii, But I buy it. My venter brings it me. 1660 Pepvs Diary 3 Oct., I heard the Duke speak of a great design that he and my Lord of Pembroke have.. of sending a venture to some parts of Africa, to dig for gold ore there. 1810 Crabbe Borough xvii. 219 Of both lie keeps his ledger :— there he reads Of gainful ventures and of godly deed'i. 1867 Smiles Huguenots Eng. t. 5 [He] agreed to join them in their venture, and supply them with the necessary means. 1884 Lazv Rep. 29 Chanc. Div. 465 Inducing other people to spend their nfoney..on such a venture as a limited company. b. That which is ventured or risked in a commercial enterprise or speculation. 1597 Shaks. 2 Hen. IV, 11. iv. 69 There's a whole Merchants venture of Burdeux-Stuffe in him. 1598 B. JoNso?* Ev. Man out of Hum . 11. iii. He may pricke his foot with a thorne, and be as much as the whole venter is worth, a 1764 R. Llovd TewpU Foiik Poet. Wks. 1774 K. 135 The consequence has vEsop told. He lost his venture, sheep and gold. 1771 Mme. D'.Arbi-av Early Diary 3 June, As to merchandise, the few ventures he took out with him, he has brought back unchanged. 1814 Canning in Croker /'a/^rj (1884) 1. 57 It is the ship A'/«^w«V/,. .destined for the East Indies.. .She is a venture of 40,000/. 1841 Stephem Comnt. Laws En^. {1874) II. 565 'I'he importer is now enabled to bring his goods into this country, without being obliged to pay the duties until he finds for bis venture either a foreign or a home purchaser. t 5, Chance or risic of something [Sc.^ ; also eilipt.jc)\AX\CQ ofbeingefficaciousor beneficial. Obs. 1613 Lodge Foore Mttns Talent Wks. (Hunt. CI.) IV. 16 Dropp..two or three dropps into your eies. If you could get the liuer of a buck and mix it with these, it would bee the better, and the water would haue greater venture. 1637 Rutherford Lett. 1 1862) I. Ixxviii. 200 Your Lordship hath now a blessed venfure of winning court with the Prince of the Kings of the earth. 1671 M. Bruce GH. News in Evil Times Pref. (1708) A 2, That it is better for yo^ to come and take your venture of suffering nor bide away. 6. The (or an) act of venturing upon something an attempt at some action ; also, the means or result of so venturing. 184X LovKR Hand^ Andy Preface 6 .\ few short papers, under the title of this little venture, appeared at intervals in IJentley's Miscellany. 1849 Ruskin Sex>. Lamps iv. § 3. 96 There are many forms of so called decoration in architecture, habitual, and recei%-ed, . . without any venture at expression of dislike. 1883 Meredith AurM ^/iaw i, On her great' (Jventure, Man, Earth gazes. 7. = Adventure sb. 8. rare. 1844 KiNGLAKR Eothen vi, Navigating the seas of their fjrefathers with the same heroic, .spirit of venture. 187a Blackik Lays lUghl. 26 Who. .fled from pomp of Courts., to win lost souls, .with loving venture. Ventobeb 3. Obsr~^ II. t 8. A prostitute ; = z6ii Shaks. Cymb. 1. vi. 123 Diseas'd ventures That play with all Infirmities for Gold, Which rottcnnesse can lend Nature. 1 9. One who or that which ventures out. Ohs~^ 170a in Pennsylv. Hist. Soc. Mem. IX. 123 The cruisers., may pick up alt ventures out without hazard. 10. Venture-girl^ -miss^ a girl or woman who goes to India in order to get a husband. 1815 r. Hook Sayings Ser. 11. Passion
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