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VOICEFUL.
suck lightning sap, and become voiced dragons. 1861 Ld.
Lytton & Fane Tannhduser 11 God to her rescue sends
Voiced seraphims.
trmnsf. 1834 Ld. Houghton Mem. Tour Greece 138 How
were ye voiced, ye Stars,—how cheerily Castor and Pollux
spoke to the quivering seaman. xB^ Tait's Mag, XVI.
xo8/a All was silence and all was solitude, and yet all was
voiced and all was full. x86i Ld. Lvtton & Fank Tannkduser
34 Oft have you flooded this fair space with song,
Waked these voiced walls, and vocal made yon roof.
b. Having a voice of a specified kind, quality,
or tone.
Yov clenr-, faint; gCHtU't k&arse-, hollow-^ loud-y law^
fntMe-t fraMk- (1513), rough'^ shrill-^ soft-, ^veetvoiced^
etc., see the adjs.
1637 Austin Hxc Homo v. 128 Ovid.. advised women
(who are so angel-like voyced) to learne by musicks rules,
to order it. 1884 W. C. Smith KiUrostatt 61 Never were
rills and fountains So merrily voiced as these.
t3. Much or highly spoken of; commended,
famed. Obs.-^
1661 Life T. Fuiler 14 He continued hb pious endeavours
of preaching in most of the voyced pulpits of London.
3. Phonology. Uttered with voice (or vibration
of the vocal chords) as opposed to breath ; sonant.
Said esp. of certain consonants, as opposed to
those which vlxq voiceless (see Voiceless a. 5).
1867 A M. Bell Visible Sp. 67 The initially voiced v .
sinks imperceptibly into its voiceless correspondenty^—as if
the word were written leavf. 1876 Douse Grimm's L.
App. D. 195 The action of the chordae in the production of
voiced sounds. 1899 Allbutfs Syst. Med. VII. 64 The
pronunciation of certain letters is also somewhat indistinct,
especially the voiced explosives such as b, d,g,
b. Of breath,
1877 SwKKT Handbk. Phonetics 74 As stops can only be
voiced by driving voiced breath into an air-tight chamber,
they cannot be continued for any length of time.
Voicefol (voi'sful), a. Chiefly poet, or rhet,
[f. Voice sb. + -pou]
1. Endowed with, or as if with, a voice ; having
voice or power of utrerance ; vocal.
c 1611 Chapman //z*fz8ii L. HvHT Indicator No. 75. (1822I II. 177 He has less
of the oracular or voiceful part of his art. 1867 Howells
Ital. Journ. 62 In clamorous Italy, whose voiceful uproar
strikes to the summits of her guardian Alps. X876 Farrar
Marlb. Serm. xxxi. 308 Every silent, every voiceful appeal
to that which each of us has in him of purest and sweetest.
3. Involving much speech or argument; contentious,
rare"^.
X879 Meredith Egoist IL vi. 137 Dr. Middleton assented
and entered on the voiceful ground of Greek metres.
Hence Voi'cefalness.
x84() Ruskin Sev. Lamps vi. §10. 172 That deep sense
of voicefulness . , which we feel in walls that have long been
washed by the passing waves of humanity.
Voiceless, a. [f. Voice sb. +-les3.]
L Having no voice; destitute of the power of
utterance ; uttering no words or speech ; dumb,
mate.
Id group ip) applied to immaterial things.
(«) »53S Coverdale Acts viiL 32 As a lambe voycelesse be.
fore his shercr so opened he not his mouth. 18x7 Shellev
Rev. Islam x. xii, Peace in the silent streets ! save when the
cries Of victims to their fiery judgement led, Made pale
their voiceless lips. 1849 De Quiscey Fng. Mail-Coach
m. iv, Wks. 1890 XIII. 325 Clinging to the horns of the
altar, voiceless she stood. ito9 TENNysoN Enid 1115 Mute
As creatures voiceless thro' the fault of birth. 1873 Black
Pr. Thule ii, Lavender did not care to remain among those
voiceless monuments of a forgotten past.
absoL X85S SiNGLETOM Virgil \\. 108 He of the voiceless
both a council calls And gains the knowledge of their lives.
1893 Max Pemberton Iron Pirate xxiv, The men waited
for some seconds silent as the voiceless.
{p) x8i6 Bvkon Monody on Sheridan 10 Who hath not
shared that calm so still and deep, The voiceless thought
which would not speak but weep. 1883 Fortn, Rev. Dec.
766 It is the public good which is so often powerless and
voiceless in presence of the audacity of private wrong. 1891
284
Farrar Darkn. at time
it stode voyde. 1473-S in Cal. Proc. Chanc. Q. Eliz. (1830)
II. Pref. 61 They beyng so seased, the chirch fell voyde.
1503-4 Act 19 Hen. VIl^ c 25 § 2 Whensoever, .any of ther
Sees to be voyde be any other ways. X568 Grafton Chron.
II. 36 The See was voyde fine yeres, and the goodes of the
Church spent to the kinges vse. 1596 Drayton Legends iv.
705 If some Abbey hapned void to fall, By death of Him
that the Superiour was. i6»8 Burton Anat. Met. 11. iii. vii.
(ed. 3) 324, I know not.. in what Cathedral Church, a fat
Prebend fell voide. X655 Fuller Ch. Hist. 11. iv. § 45 Winchester
lay void six, and Sherburn seven years. 1691 Wood
Aih. Oxon. II. 684 In the said See, after it had laid void
till Nov. 1688. did succeed D»". Tho. I^mplugh. a 1715
Burnet 0-wn Time (1766) I. 248 He was removed to Win-
Chester void by Duppa's death. 1785 Paley Mot. Philos.
III. I. XX, The advowson of a void turn, by law, cannot be
transferred from one patron to another. 1835 Penny Cyci.
iv. 223/2 If a donative is the second living taken without a
dispensation, the first is not made void by the statute. 1848
Lytton Harold in. iii. The chairs of the prelates of London
and Canterbury were void.
b. Similarly of secular offices,
ijfij T'REVtsfL Higden (Rolls) II. 109 Nor l?h umberlonde
was voyde wijjoute kvng ei5te ^ere. c 1435 Chron. London
(Kingsford, 1905) 43 Hit was knowyn that thurh thedeposicion,..'and
causes fforseyd,. .the Rewme oflf Englond was
voyde ffor the tyme. c 1500 Melusine xix. 67 Your fader..
lefte hys landes and possessyons voyde, without lord. 1535
Lett. (1902) I. 398, I am
Cromwell in Memman Life e payment off Lomas. Rec. off voyd money off
^e payment off Phelyp and Jacobe. 1539 Ibid.^ Rec. of the
voyd money vs. ij d.
2. Of a seat, saddle, etc, : Having no occupant
in which no one is sitting, lying, etc. ;
empty.