Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Speaking with two different voices.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective rare Of, pertaining to, or possessing the
ability tospeak in two differentvoices , especially as aventriloquist .
Etymologies
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Probably coined by American novelist Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810).
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Examples
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It followed that -- among the futile persons who use serious, long words in talking about mere books, -- aggrieved reproof of my auctorial malversations, upon the one ground or the other, became in 1921 biloquial and pandemic.
Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918
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Deception was often unnecessarily practised, and my biloquial faculty did not lie unemployed.
Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist Charles Brockden Brown 1790
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