vociferate

present singular third person vociferates · participle present vociferating · participle past vociferated · past vociferated

1. intransitiveTo cry out with vehemence

   Vociferated logic kills me quite, A noisy man is always in the right,

   1782, William Cowper, Conversation

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   He then began to vociferate pretty loudly, and at last an old woman, opening an upper casement, asked, Who they were, and what they wanted?

   1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms: exclaim, bawl, clamor

2. transitiveTo utter with a loud voice; to shout out.

   Though he may vociferate the word liberty.

   1779, Vicesimus Knox, Essays Moral and Literary

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   At the end of this period she found speech. “Of all the damn silly fatheaded things!” she vociferated, if that's the word. [...] something had occurred to wake the fiend that slept in him. “Dahlia!” he ... yes better make it vociferated once more, I'm pretty sure it's the word I want.

   1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC