soliloquize, v.
(səˈlɪləkwaɪz)
[f. soliloqu-y n. + -ize.]
1. intr. To engage in soliloquy; to talk to oneself.
| 1759 J. G. Cooper Ver-Vert ii. 29 He could..at a proper time and place Religiously soliloquise. 1820 Byron Juan iii. xcvi, Leaving my people to proceed alone, While I soliloquize beyond expression. 1858 Baroness Bunsen in Hare Life (1879) II. iv. 235 He soliloquises in a manner in which you would tell a story to a child. 1873 Browning Red Cotton Night-Cap Country 120 Thus, mutely might our friend soliloquize. |
2. trans. a. To utter in soliloquy.
| 1805 E. de Acton Nuns of Desert I. 172 Sometimes he..soliloquised a string of barbarous oaths. 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. i. ix, No scenic individual, with knavish hypocritical views, will take the trouble to soliloquize a scene. 1854 Fraser's Mag. L. 72 Balder soliloquises his ambition. |
b. To address or apostrophize in soliloquy.
| 1823 New Monthly Mag. VII. 332 When you are soliloquizing the moon. |
Hence
soˈliloquizer, one who soliloquizes. Also
soˈliloquizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.;
soˈliloquizingly adv.| 1802 Edin. Rev. I. 118 Prosopopœia is more suited to the narrator of such a state, than to the *soliloquizer. 1884 Pall Mall G. 5 Mar. 5/1 One of those..soliloquisers of villainy who are specially favoured by the dramatist. |
| c 1822 Campbell Note to Byron's Heav. & Earth iii. 931 Too much tedious *soliloquising. 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. ii. viii, If the soliloquizing Barber ask: ‘What has your Lordship done to earn all this?’ 1870 M. Bridgman R. Lynne I. xii. 184 In a conversational mood, or, more properly speaking, a soliloquising one. |
| 1840 New Monthly Mag. LX. 321 ‘Comforts?’ said Tim, *soliloquizingly. |