Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (II) Communication of Ideas
Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas
2. Spoken Language

580. Voice.

   NOUN:VOICE; vocality; organ, lungs, bellows; good -, fine -, powerful (loud) [See Loudness] -, musical [See Melody. Concord]- voice; intonation; tone (sound) [See Sound]- of voice.
  UTTERANCE; vocalization; cry [See Cry]; strain, prolation [archaic]; exclamation, ejaculation, vociferation, ecphonesis; enunciation, articulation; articulate sound, distinctness; clearness, – of articulation; stage whisper; delivery, attack.
  ACCENT, accentuation; emphasis, stress; broad -, strong -, pure -, native -, foreign- accent; pronunciation; orthoëpy; euphony (melody) [See Melody. Concord]; polyphonism, polyphony.
  [WORDS SIMILARLY PRONOUNCED] homonyms.
  VENTRILOQUISM or ventriloquy, ventrilocution, gastriloquism or gastriloquy [rare]; ventriloquist, gastriloquist [rare].
  [SCIENCE OF VOICE], phonology; (sound) [See Sound].
   VERB:SPEAK, utter, breathe; give utterance, give tongue; cry (shout) [See Cry]; ejaculate, rap out; vocalize, prolate [obs.], articulate, enunciate, pronounce, accentuate, aspirate, deliver, emit; whisper, murmur, whisper in the ear; ventriloquize.
   ADJECTIVE:VOCAL, phonetic, oral; ejaculatory, articulate, articulated, distinct, enunciative, accentuated, aspirated; euphonious (melodious) [See Melody. Concord]; whispered.
  VENTRILOQUOUS, ventriloquistic, gastriloquial [rare], gastriloquous [rare].
   QUOTATIONS:

1. How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman.—Massinger
2. The organ of the soul.—Longfellow
3. Thy voice is a celestial melody.—Longfellow
4. Speak in a monstrous little voice.—Midsummer Night’s Dream
5. I was never so bethump’d with words.—King John