a. rare. [Cf. next and -AL.] = VENTRILOQUIAL a.
1864. Tallis’s Theatr. Newspaper, 30 July, 258. The phenomenon will be attributed to some kind of ventriloqual trick.
1888. Doughty, Arabia Deserta, I. 89. These Western men are distinguished by their harsh ventriloqual speech.
Hence Ventriloqually adv. rare.
1859. Bedford (PA) Inquirer, 12 Aug., 1/3. I am no singer, never sang a song in my life, except ventriloqually.
1871. B. Taylor, Faust (1875), II. II. 152. Proteus, speaking ventriloqually, now near, now at a distance.
