voiced, ppl. a.
(vɔɪst)
[f. voice n. and v.]
1. Endowed with or possessing a voice; having a voice like that of some other person or being.
In some instances perhaps the passive participle.
| a 1600 Montgomerie Misc. Poems xxxvii. 10 Sen we ar voced, whairfor suld we refrane, To suffer pain for ony bodies bost? 1642 Denham Sophy iv. 34 That's Erythæa, Or some Angell voyc't like her. a 1821 Keats Wks. (1889) II. 15 Where the germs take buoyant root in stormy Air, suck lightning sap, and become voiced dragons. 1861 Ld. Lytton & Fane Tannhäuser 11 God to her rescue sends Voiced seraphims. |
| transf. 1834 Ld. Houghton Mem. Tour Greece 138 How were ye voiced, ye Stars,—how cheerily Castor and Pollux spoke to the quivering seaman. 1849 Tait's Mag. XVI. 108/2 All was silence and all was solitude, and yet all was voiced and all was full. 1861 Ld. Lytton & Fane Tannhäuser 34 Oft have you flooded this fair space with song, Waked these voiced walls, and vocal made yon roof. |
b. Having a voice of a specified kind, quality, or tone.
For clear-, faint-, gentle-, hoarse-, hollow-, loud-, low-, † nine-, † rank- (1513), rough-, shrill-, soft-, sweet-voiced, etc., see the adjs.
| 1637 Austin Hæc Homo v. 128 Ovid..advised women (who are so angel-like voyced) to learne by musicks rules, to order it. 1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 61 Never were rills and fountains So merrily voiced as these. |
† 2. Much or highly spoken of; commended, famed. Obs.—1
| 1661 Life T. Fuller 14 He continued his pious endeavours of preaching in most of the voyced pulpits of London. |
3. Phonology. Uttered with voice (or vibration of the vocal chords) as opposed to breath; sonant. Said esp. of certain consonants, as opposed to those which are voiceless (see voiceless a. 5).
| 1867 A. M. Bell Visible Sp. 67 The initially voiced v sinks imperceptibly into its voiceless correspondent f—as if the word were written leavf. 1876 T. Le M. Douse Grimm's L. App. D. 195 The action of the chordae in the production of voiced sounds. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 64 The pronunciation of certain letters is also somewhat indistinct, especially the voiced explosives such as b, d, g. |
b. Of breath.
| 1877 Sweet Handbk. Phonetics 74 As stops can only be voiced by driving voiced breath into an air-tight chamber, they cannot be continued for any length of time. |
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Add: Hence ˈvoicedness n.
| 1964 L. Kaiser in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 107 Jones indicated that in the pair pence-pens it is the duration of [n] which determines the impression of voicedness of the sibilant. 1989 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics XXXIV. 341 Voicedness is only distinctive in the noun, not in the verb. |