monological, a.
(mɒnəʊˈlɒdʒɪkəl)
[Formed as prec. + -ical.]
= monologic. Also of a person: Given to monologue or soliloquy.
| 1823 New Monthly Mag. IX. 394/2 [He] appeared not only in his monological entertainments, but also in the drama. 1829 Carlyle Misc., Ger. Playw. (1840) II. 55 Plays, which..are essentially monological. 1834 Beckford Italy II. 228 In return for the honour of being admitted to this monological dialogue I kept nodding and bowing. 1842 J. Sterling Ess. (1848) I. 453 [Tennyson's] St. Simeon Stylites, a kind of monological personation of a..mad ascetic. 1872 O. W. Holmes Poet Breakf.-t. x. 281 King Thomas [sc. Carlyle], the last of the monological succession. |