ventrilocution
Noun
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Noun
ventrilocution (uncountable)
- Obsolete form of ventriloquism#English|ventriloquism.
- 1798, Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland, or the Transformation: An American Tale, chapter 22:
- "You are not apprized of the existence of a power which I possess. I know not by what name to call it. [* Biloquium, or ventrilocution. Sound is varied according to the variations of direction and distance. . . .] It enables me to mimic exactly the voice of another, and to modify the sound so that it shall appear to come from what quarter, and be uttered at what distance I please."
- 1798, Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland, or the Transformation: An American Tale, chapter 22:
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