vociferate

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin vociferatus, past participle of vociferari (“to vociferate”), from vox, vocis (“voice”) + ferre (“to bear”). See voice, and bear (“to carry”).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /vəʊˈsɪfəɹeɪt/, /vəˈsɪfəɹeɪt/
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Verb edit

vociferate (third-person singular simple present vociferates, present participle vociferating, simple past and past participle vociferated)

(intransitive) To cry out with vehemence
Synonyms: exclaim, bawl, clamor
- 1782, William Cowper, Conversation:
  Vociferated logic kills me quite, A noisy man is always in the right,
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
  He then began to vociferate pretty loudly, and at last an old woman, opening an upper casement, asked, Who they were, and what they wanted?
(transitive) To utter with a loud voice; to shout out.
- 1779, Vicesimus Knox, Essays Moral and Literary:
  Though he may vociferate the word liberty.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
  At the end of this period she found speech. “Of all the damn silly fatheaded things!” she vociferated, if that's the word. [...] something had occurred to wake the fiend that slept in him. “Dahlia!” he ... yes better make it vociferated once more, I'm pretty sure it's the word I want.