| 单词 |
soliloquize |
| 释义 |
soliloquize, v.|səˈlɪləkwaɪz|
[f. soliloqu-y n. + -ize.]
1. intr. To engage in soliloquy; to talk to oneself.
1759J. G. Cooper Ver-Vert ii. 29 He could..at a proper time and place Religiously soliloquise. 1820Byron Juan iii. xcvi, Leaving my people to proceed alone, While I soliloquize beyond expression. 1858Baroness Bunsen in Hare Life (1879) II. iv. 235 He soliloquises in a manner in which you would tell a story to a child. 1873Browning Red Cotton Night-Cap Country 120 Thus, mutely might our friend soliloquize.
2. trans.
a. To utter in soliloquy.
1805E. de Acton Nuns of Desert I. 172 Sometimes he..soliloquised a string of barbarous oaths. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. i. ix, No scenic individual, with knavish hypocritical views, will take the trouble to soliloquize a scene. 1854Fraser's Mag. L. 72 Balder soliloquises his ambition.
b. To address or apostrophize in soliloquy.
1823New Monthly Mag. VII. 332 When you are soliloquizing the moon.
Hence soˈliloquizer, one who soliloquizes. Also soˈliloquizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; soˈliloquizingly adv.
1802Edin. Rev. I. 118 Prosopopœia is more suited to the narrator of such a state, than to the *soliloquizer. 1884Pall Mall G. 5 Mar. 5/1 One of those..soliloquisers of villainy who are specially favoured by the dramatist.
c1822Campbell Note to Byron's Heav. & Earth iii. 931 Too much tedious *soliloquising. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. ii. viii, If the soliloquizing Barber ask: ‘What has your Lordship done to earn all this?’ 1870M. Bridgman R. Lynne I. xii. 184 In a conversational mood, or, more properly speaking, a soliloquising one.
1840New Monthly Mag. LX. 321 ‘Comforts?’ said Tim, *soliloquizingly. |
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