aloud, adv.
(əˈlaʊd)
Also 4–6 aloude, 6 alowd,
[a prep.1 of manner + loud a. Cf. alow, ahigh.]
1. In a loud voice; with great noise; loudly.
c 1374 Chaucer Troylus ii. 401 The kinges foole is wont to crie aloud. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. vii. 23 Lauhynge al a-loude. c 1400 Destr. Troy xv. 6251 He..on lowde saide. 1539 Bible (‘great’) Gen. xlv. 2 (R.) He wepte alowde. 1593 Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, v. i. 3 Ring Belles alowd, burne Bonfires. 1603 ― Meas. for M. ii. iv. 153 Ile tell the world aloud, What man thou art. 1767 Fordyce Serm. Yng. Wom. I. vi. 252 One of the Company would often read aloud. 1821 Keats Isabel xxxiii, In dreams they groan'd aloud. |
b. doubtfully attrib.
1509 Hawes Past. Pleas. xlii. iii, Open thine eares unto my song aloude. 1806 W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. II. 137 The only serious poem that is resorted to for aloud reading. |
2. fig. (colloq.)
1872 Daily News 28 Feb., The stuff, to quote the trenchant expression of an on-looker, ‘stank aloud.’ |