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English
Etymology
From ventri- + locution.
Noun
ventrilocution (uncountable)
- Obsolete form of ventriloquism.
1798, Charles Brockden Brown, chapter 22, in Wieland, or the Transformation: An American Tale:"You are not apprized of the existence of a power which I possess. I know not by what name to call it. [* Biloquium, or ventrilocution. Sound is varied according to the variations of direction and distance. . . .] It enables me to mimic exactly the voice of another, and to modify the sound so that it shall appear to come from what quarter, and be uttered at what distance I please."
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)