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VOICE.
performed by the most beautiful voices in Rome. i86a
Chambers' Encycl, III. 9/2 Another Chorus of hundreds of
voices, and eighty harps, which had been assembled ant!
trained for the same occasion.
b. A vocal part in music.
1666-7 Pkpvs Diary 24 Jan., Mrs. Anne Jones,.. who
dances well, ..and danced with great pleasure;, .and then
sung many things of three voices. 1706 A. Bedford
TempU Mus. iii. 55 This one Voice or Part is mentioned as
the greatest Excellency of the Temple Musick.
12. The agency or means by which something
specified is expressed, represented, or revealed.
c 1600 Shaks. Sowt. Ixix. 3 AH toungs (the voice of soules)
glue thee that due, Vttring bare truth. 1691 Hartcliffe
Virtues 371 The Consent of Mankind is the Voice of
Nature._ a 1854 H, Reed Led. Brit. Poets ii. (1857) 45
Poetry is the voice of imagination. 1867 J. H. Newman
in B. Ward LiyHigi2) II. xxvii, 223 Doctrine is tUe voice
of a religious body. 187a Morley I'oitaire (1886) 3 The
scientific reason urgently seeks instruments and a voice.
b. Applied to persons.
1597 Shaks. 2 Hen. IV^ iv. ii. 19 To vs[you werejth'imafine
Voyceof Heauen it selfe. 1603 — Meas./or M, ii.iv.6i
(now the voyce of the recordW Law) Pronouncea sentence.
1850 Tesnvson In Afem, cxiii, A potent voice of parliament,
A pillar steadfast in the storm. 1876 Lowell in Ne7u
Princeton Rev. March 173 This no doubt is one of the
chief praises of Gray, as of other poets, that he is the voice
of emotions common to all mankind. 1903 Q. Rev. April
603 They met with no contradiction from Lord Cranborne,
the present voice of the Foreign Office in the House of
Commons.
III. atirib. and Con^, 13, a. Comb., chiefly
objective, as voicebreaking^'production^ -training
sbs. ; voice-crazing^ -/^^^if^gt -ordering \ voice-
like ; voice-matched adjs.
c 1440 Jacob's Well 295 To stodye more in voys-brekyng
in cherche t»an in deuoute syngynge. a 1593 Marlowe
Oviifs Elegies 11. vt 23 Nosuch voice-feigning oird was on
the ground. 1593 Nashe Christ's T. Wks. (Grosart) IV.
240 With reiterated solicitings, and prostrate voyce-crazing
vehemencie. 1598 Sylvester Dh Bartas ii. ii. n. Babylon
575 David's the next, who, with the melody Of voycematcht
fingers, draws sphear*s harmony. Ibid. iv. Columns
715 All these Harps and Lutes .. Plac't lound about her,
prove in every part This is the noble, sweet, Voyceord'ring
Art. 184a FABER^/^Wan f.akejx And the chattering
voicelike sounds that came On the breath of the tempest
swelling. 1895-6 Cat. Univ. Nebraska 1 10 I'he development
of the voice- producing muscles. 1896 Godey's Mag.
Feb. 165/2 We have methods of voice-training to overcome
this. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med, IV. 791 The patient must
be instructed in the proper method of voice- product ion.
b, Simple attrib., as voice-accompaniment^ -g^sittre^
'Stammer^ tnne, etc. Also in sense i g, as
voice-glide f sounds stop^ etc
(a) 184a Penny Cycl. XXII. 431/3 Voice stammer is of
two kinds. 1876 LroiKiN in J. O. Johnston Life (1904) 31
The voice- accompaniment was beautiful. 1879 Whitmf.y
Sanskrit Gram. 369 The utterances which may be classed as
interjections are. .in part voice- gestures, in part onomatopoeias.
1897 Mary Kincsley ly, Africa 181 In all cases
the tunes are only voice tuneSj not for instrumental performance.
(b) x888 Sweet En^. Sounds ax In North Welsh all long
high vowels .ire followed by an obscure voice-glide. 1890
— Primer Spoken Eng. i In the formation of voice sounds,
* father '. ibid. 9 Initial voice stops., have
such as eui m
hardly any vocality in the slop itself.
14. Special combs., as f voice-asker, one who
asks for the opinion of others; voioe-box, the
larynx; voioe-figure, a figure or graphic representation
of a vocal sound; voice-part, Mus.^ a
part or melody written for the voice, a vocal part
voice-pipe, -tube, a pipe or tube for conveying
the voice, a speaking tube, esp. as used on ships.
1593 BiLSOH Govt. Christs Ch. xiv. 317 Much lesse did
Paul make him (Timothyl "voice«asker, to knowe whether
it should please the Presbyters to haue these things done, or
no. 191a A. Keith Human Body L 16 The windpipe has
already been exposed, and is seen issuing from the 'voicebox
or larynx below the chin. 1891 Marc. Watts Hughks
in Centnry Mag. May 37/1 The peculiar forms shown in
the illustrations of this article, and which I call * Voice-
Figures. 1903 Daily Chron. 3 June 5/3 The range and
variety of the Voice Figures correspond to the scope of the
human voice. 1600 J. Pory tr. Leo''s Africa iii. 144 Ceitaine
minstrels and singers, which \>y turnes sometimes vse
their instruments and sometimes *voice-mtisicke. 1869 Gore
Ot'SELEV Counterp. Canon if fugue xv. 1 1 1 When the canon
is produced simply between two *voiccparts, it is called
* two in one '. 1897 Sir A. Sullivan in Strand Mag. Dec.
654/1 Then the voice parts are written out by the copyist,
and the rehearsals begin. 1893 Dail^ Netus 20 Feb. 5/5
*Voice pipes have, according to this authority, 'failed
utterly on board ships'. 1895 Review of Rev. Aug. 219
Receiving orders only by "voice-tube transmitted from the
deck. 1899 F. r. Hullen Way Navy 91 Electric wires,
telephones, voice tubes, and engines of every sort.
voice (vois), V. Also 5 voyse, voise, 6-7
voyce, 7 Sc. woyce. [f. prec]
I. trans. 1. In passive : To be commonly said
or stated ;
to be spoken of generally or publicly
to be reported, rumoured, or bruited abroad. ? Obs,
a. Withy^r, as, to be, or simple complement.
1453 Paston Lett. Suppl. (1901) 49 Johane, the wyfe of
Robert Iclyngham, chapman, quich ys voysed for a myssp
governyd woman. i6a6 in Birch Crt. f( Times Chas. /(1848)
I. 148 Here ts much lamentation for the King of Denmark,
whose disaster is voiced by all to be exceeding great. 1638
Mayne Lucinn (1664) 206 Nor are they. .to be pointed at
hy passengers, and voiced the mo^t Valiant among equalts.
1659 Hevlin Certamen Epist. 33 A Hook of mine called
Kespondit Petrus..was publiquely voyced abroad, to have
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been publiquely burnt in London. 1698 Fryer Acc. E.
India if P. 63 About the House was a delicate Garden,
voiced to be the pleasantest in India. 1810 Scott Lady 0/
L. iL XXV, Not long should Roderick Dhu's renown Be
foremost voiced by mountain fame. 1823 — Nigel xxix.
Your father was voiced generally as. .one of the bravest
men of Scotland.
fb. In impersonal use, it is voiced. Usually
introduced by as, or const, that^ how, Obs.
{a) 1458 Paston Lett. I. 425 The King's safe conduct is
not holden but broken, as it is voiced here. 1475 Bk.
Noblesse (Koxb.) 71 Which grevous offence, as it is voised
accustumablie, ..hathe be more usid under. .youre obeisaunce.,than
in othir straunge regions. 1599 Hakluyt
Voy. I. 605 A prayer.. made by her Maiestie, as it was
voyced. 1659 Rushw; Hist. Coll. I. 176 Pennington hasted
to Oxford where the Parliament was reassembled, but as
was voiced, was there concealed till the Parliament was
dissolved.
{b) 1606 Dekker^^z-. Sins 11. (Arb.) 20 After it was voyc'd
that Monsieur Mendax came to dwell amongst them. 1629
Maxwell tr. Herodiofi (1635) 95 When it was voyced, how
graciously he had spoken to the Senate, a 1648 Lo.
Herbert Hen. VIIl{x€>%i) 138 The Duke of Albany ..made
It to be voiced abroad, that he had no purpose to stir out
of France this year. 1652 C. B. Stapvlton Herodian vi.
52 When it was voic'd how Graciously he spoke, . . All men
were pleas'd.
+ C, Const, upon (a thing or person). Obs,
'599 Sandys Europae Spec. (1632) 5 For one miracle
reported to be wrought by the Crucifix, not so few perhaps
as an hundred are voiced upon those other Images. 1638
Featly Strict, Lyndom. it. 54 If the Church groundeth
not the canonization of Saints upon the report of miracles
voyced on them.
+ d. In miscellaneous uses. Obs.
1600 Holland Livy xlv. xxvii, 1219 Giving no credite to
the fame that was voiced of the Romans victorie, they
cruelly handled certaine Romane souldiours, i6a8 Hobbes
Thucyd. (1822) 13 The causes of the breach of the league
publickly voiced, were these, a 1648 Ld. Herbert Hen,
yill (1683) 473 And now these Articles being published in
the neighbourhood, and thence voiced abroad, drew many
to them.
f 2. Similarly in active use : To speak of, state,
report, proclaim, etc. Obs.
Used {(i) with or (3) without complement. Cf. sense 1,
(**) '597-8 Bacon Ess.^ Suitors (Arb.) 46 Secrecie in Sutes
is a great meane of obtaining, for voicing them to bee in
forwardness may discourage some kinde of suters, but doth
quicken and awake others. 1609 Daniel Civ. Wars ni.
Ixxxiii, Many sought to feed Theeasie creditours of nouellies.
By voyciug him aliue. 1644 Fkatly Roma Ruens 2
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